[StephyJ83]

This is happening in my home state, and it irritates me that most of the articles focus on the man as being such a “great guy at church.”
TL,DR: Wife filed for divorce and two weeks later man shoots wife, mother-in-law, and his five children before shooting himself.

Man kills 7 family members, including 5 kids, in apparent murder-suicide at Utah home, police say

Eight members of a family, including five children, are*dead after authorities said they found them shot in an apparent murder-suicide*inside a rural Utah home on*Wednesday.

Police officers made the discovery while conducting a welfare check at the home in Enoch City*according to local officials*in*the*agricultural city northeast of Utah's border with*Nevada and*Arizona,*about 245 miles*south of Salt Lake City.*

On Thursday, city officials*identified the shooting*suspect as*42-year-old Michael Haight.

Two other adults in the home were identified as Haight’s wife, Tausha Haight, 40,*and Tausha’s mother, 78-year-old Gail Earl. The other five victims were identified as the shooting suspect's children: a 17-year-old girl, 12-year-old girl, 7-year-old girl, 7-year-old boy and a 4-year-old boy.

"Evidence suggests that the suspect took his own life after killing seven others in the home,"*Enoch City Manager Rob Dotson told reporters during a Thursday*morning press conference.

The state medical's office will conduct autopsies to determine the victims' official cause of death, Dotson said.

According to Dotson, the welfare check took place after "someone*with whom (the mother) had an appointment" notified police she did not show up.

Dotson said the community was sent reeling by news the family had been found dead and that they were*well-known in the community.

“Many of us have served with them in church, in the community and gone to school with these individuals,” Dotson said

The five children attended preschool, elementary, middle and high schools in the Iron County School District, officials said Thursday..*

"The Haights were my*neighbors, the youngest children played in my yard with my sons," Mayor Geoffrey Chesnut told reporters*during the news conference as he tried to fight*back tears. "Enoch is a home of lots of young professionals and families...*This is a tremendous blow to many many families who have spent many, many nights with these individuals*who are now gone."

Dodson said a divorce petition was filed on Dec. 21 by the suspected shooter's wife.

He said did he did not know who was living in the home at the time of the killings.

Investigators with the Enoch Police Department and Iron County are among some of the agencies working together to determine what took place inside the home.*

"We don't know what happened," Dotson said. "They were are friends, they were our neighbors and we loved them."

“This community at this time is hurting. They’re feeling loss, they’re feeling pain and they have a lot of questions,” Dotson added.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...g/10994182002/

Apparently, the husband was living in the basement of the house and removed all guns from the home in the days prior.

https://kjzz.com/news/local/murdered...ivorce-filings

The police had been out to the home in “previous investigations” a couple years ago but those police reports are not available to the public and no charges were ever filed.

[kellyhound]

pic with his face showing. Too bad he didn't kill himself first. Worthless bag of shit.