Household Of 8 Found Dead In Utah House In Evident Murder-Suicide

A whole household in a little Utah town was discovered dead in their house Wednesday in a dreadful obvious murder-suicide.

Authorities in the town of Enoch, Utah, stated that the other half shot his other half, mother-in-law, and the couple’s 5 kids, prior to turning the weapon on himself. The household was discovered late Wednesday afternoon after authorities went to perform a well-being examine the other half. According to report, the other half had actually served divorce documents to the other half recently.

“Evidence suggests that the suspect took his own life after killing seven others in the home,” Enoch City Supervisor Rob Dotson informed press reporters at a press conference Thursday.

According to Dotson, the other half had a consultation, which she missed out on. The individual with whom she had actually the visit called authorities to do a well-being check. “A few hours after that welfare check, a call came in and Tausha (the wife) was not located, a missing persons report was requested and was received by the Cedar City Police Department,” Dotson stated. That report was then handed down to authorities in Enoch, “at which point the welfare check to locate Tausha became an effort to locate the entire family,” Dotson included.

City authorities stated no one had actually heard reports of gunshots or suspicious activity, however Enoch Mayor Geoffrey Chesnut, who was next-door neighbors with the household, kept in mind that the houses are on big lots, making it challenging to hear anything. “They’re half-acre lots, big homes on half-acre lots,” he stated. “You don’t hear a lot coming from your neighbor’s homes.”

Detectives resolved Wednesday night and into Thursday early morning. The bodies of the household were gotten rid of later Thursday early morning. City authorities stated more details would be offered as proof was gathered from the scene, witnesses were spoken with, and autopsies were performed on the victims.

Court records gotten by Deseret News reveal that the other half applied for divorce on December 21. The court released a domestic relations injunction versus both couple, forbiding them from daunting or bugging each other by any methods, consisting of electronic interactions, and likewise forbiding abuse versus any of the kids.

Enoch Cops Chief Jackson Ames stated the town’s authorities department was “familiar with the family,” which they had actually examined the household a couple of years prior, though he did not elaborate on information of the examination.

Chesnut stated that the neighborhood was rattled by the news. “[The family] were my neighbors, the youngest children played in my yard with my sons,” he stated through tears at journalism conference. “Enoch city is a very close community… The neighbors are good, the people are wonderful and the efforts we make on one another’s behalf is like family. … This is a tremendous blow to many, many families who have spent many, many nights with these individuals who are now gone.”

“Many of us have served with them in church, in the community, and gone to school with these individuals,” Dotson stated Wednesday night, through Deseret News. “This community at this time is hurting. They’re feeling loss, they’re feeling pain, and they have a lot of questions.”

“We all can pray that their families and the neighbors and all will come to an understanding of what happened in this place, probably in a day or two, or maybe longer,” he included.