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Saturday 11 November 2017
Utah family of 4 found dead in apparent murder-suicide
Members of the Mapleton Police Department and forensics gather evidence outside a home in
Mapleton, Utah on Friday, Nov. 10, 2017. A Utah family of four and their dog have been found
dead with gunshot wounds in an apparent murder-suicide, police said Friday. The bodies of a
man, woman, teenage girl and young boy were found Thursday night inside their home in the
northern city of Mapleton, police Chief John Jackson said.
(Adam Fondren/The Deseret News via AP) Police say video shows deadly
MAPLETON, Utah (AP) — night inside their home in lights stayed on and their
A Utah family of four and the northern city of Ma- cars had not moved. One
their dog have been found pleton, police Chief John member of the family had
dead with gunshot wounds Jackson said. not shown up to work for
in an apparent murder-sui- Officers were called to several days, Jackson said.
cide, police said Friday. the home around 9 p.m. The officers received no
The bodies of a man, wom- after neighbors reported answer at the front door,
an, teenage girl and young that the family had not but they were concerned
boy were found Thursday been seen for days but the and removed a window
to get inside. Officers then to the killings or how they
found the four bodies and unfolded. Police did not
a dead dog that also had release the identities of the
been shot. family because investiga-
“As officers looked around tors were still notifying oth-
the home they observed er family members of the
things that caused them deaths.
concern,” the chief told The chief said the family
the Deseret News . had moved to the town a
“One of the things that few months earlier, and po-
caught their attention was lice had not had any prior
neighbors had said they interactions with them.
have a dog that when The teenage girl had re-
somebody knocks on the cently enrolled as a sopho-
door is very aggressive and more at Maple Mountain
barks. They didn’t get any High School, and counsel-
of that.” ors had been made avail-
Jackson said the position of able to students and fac-
the bodies inside the home ulty, Nebo School District
led investigators to believe spokeswoman Lana Hiskey
it was a murder suicide, but told the Salt Lake Tribune.
he declined to offer more Mapleton, nestled against
information about the the mountains about 10
scene. miles (16.09 kilometers)
He did not offer details south of Provo, has a popu-
about what may have led lation of about 9,500.q
force justified in I-95 shooting
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — cars. It is ramming at least
Providence Police showed one other car and, it is
dramatic footage Friday of rocking back and forth,”
a deadly shooting involv- Clements said as the vid-
ing officers on Interstate 95 eo played. Clements said
in Rhode Island, but many the footage shows officers
unanswered questions re- “doing exactly what we
main. The police depart- would want them to do
ment held a press confer- in stopping an imminent
ence to show highway and significant threat.” A
surveillance footage of the Providence officer pulled a
moments leading up the woman out of the car that
shooting and a video from was rammed to get her to
an officer’s body camera safety. Clements identified
that includes some profan- the dead man as 32-year-
ity. Police said they believe old Joseph Santos and
the footage shows an im- the injured passenger as
minent danger to the pub- 37-year-old Christine De-
lic, justifying use of force. mers, who is hospitalized.
A driver is shown racing in a Providence Public Safety
white pickup truck down a Commissioner Steven Pare
highway Thursday morning said he couldn’t say yet
as he tried to elude police why Santos was fleeing or
cars, then getting caught in how Santos knew Demers.
traffic where two highways Santos had two outstand-
merge alongside the city’s ing warrants, Clements
downtown. He repeatedly added. Spokeswoman
rams a woman’s car in Laura Meade Kirk said the
front of him as officers jump agency is working with
out of the way. Providence police and the
Providence police and state attorney general’s
state police converged on office to investigate, and
the truck and fired more said she would not com-
than 40 rounds, killing the ment further on an active
driver and injuring the pas- investigation. The investi-
senger, said Providence gation into whether use of
Police Chief Hugh Clem- force was justified is being
ents. Police later found no jointly conducted by state
weapons in the truck. police and Providence po-
“This vehicle is being used lice and overseen by the
as a weapon in an attempt state attorney general,
to flee, and it is hitting other Pare said.q