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Friends and family talked about the family of Tausha and Michael Haight and the last time they saw them before police say Michael Haight shot and killed them all before killing himself.
Officials said that a Utah man identified as Michael Haight, fatal suicide shooting killed his five children, his mother-in-law, his wife and himself, two weeks after his wife filed for divorce. CBS News reports that during a Thursday press conference, Enoch Police Chief, Jackson Ames, said that officers had been involved in investigations involving the 42-year-old man and his family a "couple of years prior" to the time of the incident.
Utah man fatally shot his five children, his mother-in-law and his wife and then killed himself two weeks after the woman had filed for divorce, according to authorities and public records. Police also revealed during a Thursday news conference that officers investigated the 42-year-old man and his family a “couple of years prior,” suggesting possible earlier problems inside the household. Enoch Police Chief Jackson Ames did not elaborate.
Authorities allege a father killed seven and himself amid a divorce proceeding.
The youngest children played in my yard with my sons, said the city's mayor.