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According to fresh information revealed by officials, a man in Utah is suspected of killing his wife and three children at their house this week, gravely injuring his 17-year-old son, and then turning a gun on himself.
Police first reported finding the dead and the lone survivor inside a home in West Valley City, a suburb southwest of Salt Lake City, on Tuesday night.
The West Valley Police Department, the case’s lead agency, said the mother’s failure to show up for work this week led to the finding.
A worried family member went into the house’s garage, discovered a 17-year-old lad who was seriously hurt, and called the police.
According to a police update given at a news conference Wednesday evening, the 38-year-old mother and her two girls, aged 9 and 2,