Five people were found dead in a Utah home after a man apparently shot
his wife and four children before killing himself, police said Wednesday.
A 17-year-old boy survived but has a severe brain injury.

Police believe the shooting in a split-level house in a Salt Lake City suburb
happened over the weekend. The victims weren’t found until Tuesday,
however, when a relative who’d been unable to reach the family went inside.

The woman found the badly wounded teen in the garage. Arriving officers
then found the mother, 38, and two girls, ages 9 and 2, dead upstairs together
in the same bed.

An 11-year-old boy was found dead in a downstairs living room with his father.
A handgun underneath the 42-year-old man led police to believe he was the shooter.

Investigators believe the surviving teenage son made his way to the garage
after being shot elsewhere.

“The father likely shot all of the members of the family and then himself,” West
Valley City Police Department spokeswoman Roxeanne Vainuku said at a news
conference.

Neighbors hadn’t reported any gunshots in the area over the weekend. They
had no previous reports of domestic violence or other disturbances involving
the family. So far, there was no note or other evidence pointing to a motive,
Vainuku said.