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Mothers and daughters

  • By Naomi Hsu

I couldn’t help but miss the fact when I was younger, I was in the most need of nurture and care. However, as I got older — slowly catching ne…

8 dead in Utah murder-suicide after wife sought divorce
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8 dead in Utah murder-suicide after wife sought divorce

  • By SAM METZ Associated Press

A 42-year-old man fatally shot his five children, his mother-in-law and his wife, then killed himself two weeks after the woman had filed for divorce, according to authorities and public records. Enoch Police Chief Jackson Ames said during a Thursday press conference that officers had been involved with some investigations involving the family a "couple of years prior," but he did not elaborate. The crime rocked Enoch, a small town in southern Utah 245 miles about halfway between Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. It's one of the fastest-growing areas of the country and communities of new homes are made up of large families that belong, like most of Utah, to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known widely as the Mormon church.