Concert in Utah park honors man killed in London attack

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – The life of a Utah man who ran a recording studio at his home before he was killed in a high-profile London attack that also injured his wife was celebrated Saturday with the local music he loved.

Among the attendees was Keith Malda, a police officer in London who was one of the first responders to the scene at London’s Westminster Bridge. He saw Melissa Cochran bloody and silent on the bridge on March 22 and helped treat her arrived.

The two stayed in touch, and Malda said he traveled to Utah after being inspired by her focus on love over hate after the attack. “I had to come,” he said.

Melissa Cochran said Malda stayed with her and told her everything was going to be OK. “I owe my life to him,” she said.

Melissa Cochran, 46, said she was looking at her camera and didn’t see the sport utility vehicle coming before ambulances before it plowed into a crowd of pedestrians. She and her husband had been grabbing each other’s hands just before the attack, kissing and saying how much fun they were having with each other.

Kurt Cochran was thrown from London’s Westminster Bridge when he and his wife were struck by a sport utility vehicle that plowed into a group of pedestrians. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack that killed four people and injured scores more.