How two Utah school friends ended up facing death penalty in Congo

How two Utah school friends ended up facing death penalty in Congo

Marcel Malanga and Tyler Thompson, both 21, met on the football field before getting swept up in an attempted coup

Two events are uppermost in the minds of residents of West Jordan, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, right now, and they could hardly be more different.

One is the 4 July Western Stampede rodeo, the city’s hugely popular annual celebration of patriotism and pride. The other is an attempted coup d’état almost 8,500 miles away in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has swept up two of its young residents.

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