Vigil planned for victims of suspected murder-suicide in Utah
The shooting left eight people dead, including the suspected gunman, Michael Haight, and his wife, mother-in-law and five children.
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The shooting left eight people dead, including the suspected gunman, Michael Haight, and his wife, mother-in-law and five children.
Residents of Enoch, Utah, about 250 miles south of Salt Lake City, are looking for answers after resident Michael Haight shot and killed his wife, kids and mother-in-law before turning the gun on himself in a murder suicide. City officials say they’ll rebuild like they did after the flash floods in 2021 that impacted southern Utah.
Police didn't offer specifics about the killings, but said they discovered the bodies while conducting a welfare check at the house.
A Utah man who fatally shot his five children, mother-in-law and wife and then killed himself had removed guns owned by himself and his wife days before the murder-suicide, leaving the family “vulnerable,” a relative said Friday. The wife, Tausha Haight, told her extended family that her husband, Mike Haight, took the guns from the family’s home this week, just two weeks after she had filed for divorce, sister-in-law Jennie Earl told The Associated Press. She said she did not know how Tausha Haight felt about the removal but said it “left the family vulnerable,” noting that both Taus...
Eight bodies were found inside an Enoch City home on Wednesday, January 4, 2023, all suffering from gunshot wounds