Five family members found dead at Utah home, teen alive

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Five family members found dead at Utah home, teen alive

Five family members including three children have been found dead in a home in the US state of Utah and another, aged 17, was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound.

The dead were two adults, an 11-year-old boy, and two girls aged nine and two, according to Roxeanne Vainuku, a spokeswoman for the West Valley City Police Department. It was not immediately clear how they died.

They were found in the house in West Valley City, about 14km southwest of Salt Lake City on Tuesday. The teen was discovered in the garage.

“Absolutely horrific. This is something that certainly will weigh heavily on investigators in this case,” Vainuku said at a night time news conference.

Authorities don’t believe there is a suspect on the loose, and the shooting is something that was “isolated to this home”, she added

Because the 17-year-old “is injured and he’s in the hospital, there are some challenges in communicating with him and finding out more information”, Vainuku said.

A relative alerted police on Monday after unsuccessfully trying to reach the 38-year-old woman who lived in the home, authorities said. Officers went to the house, but no one answered.

They came back on Tuesday afternoon after the same relative reported finding the 17-year-old in the garage.

Police are investigating inside the home and have also been talking with neighbours and looking for evidence from things like doorbell cameras, Vainuku said.

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