Overview

• Officers found Timothy Ruthenberg, 59, dead late Oct. 5 in his Poplar Grove apartment near 1900 West North Temple Street.
• Detectives arrested his roommate, Michael Bynum, 54, in connection with the case and booked him into the Salt Lake County Jail.
• Bynum is reported to be the last person seen leaving the apartment where Ruthenberg was killed, according to police.
• The state medical examiner determined the death was a homicide, triggering the criminal inquiry by Salt Lake City Police.
• Authorities have not announced motive or formal charges, and they note Bynum is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.