SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) -- A 37-year-old professional violinist who's lived in Utah for the majority of his life was taken into ICE custody while on a work trip to Colorado last week.

John Shin immigrated to Utah on a visa with his father from South Korea when he was a child, according to his attorney Adam Crayk.

He went to elementary school, high school and college in the Beehive state, graduating from Utah State University, before going on to play on some of the biggest stages, including a stint with the Utah Symphony and Ballet West.

On Tuesday, Shin's wife Danae Snow, an American citizen, told ABC4 News that she got a heartbreaking phone call from him on her birthday Wednesday, August 20.

"That morning he was texting me 'happy birthday, I love you so much' and then by that afternoon,

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