{"id":3722,"date":"2023-01-08T04:56:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3722"},"modified":"2023-03-21T01:40:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T06:40:55","slug":"utah-murder-suicide-underscores-frequency-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3722","title":{"rendered":"Utah murder-suicide underscores frequency of family killings<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

ENOCH, Utah (AP) \u2014 City leaders in a small Utah town choked up this week as they expressed shock after a murder-suicide carried out by a fellow church member left eight people dead in their close-knit community, including five children who were classmates with their kids.
\nThough shocking, family mass killings are an all-too-common tragedy across the country. They\u2019ve happened nearly every 3.5 weeks for the last two decades on average, according to\u00a0a database\u00a0compiled by USA Today, The Associated Press and Northeastern University.
\nEnoch, Utah, is one of more than 30 communities sent reeling by a family mass killing in the last two years, a list that includes communities of wealth and poverty and spares no race or class. A family mass killing \u2014 where four or more people were killed, not including the perpetrator \u2014 happened each of the last two years in places as large as Houston or as small as\u00a0Casa Grande, Arizona, the database shows.
\nThe circumstances of the killings are myriad: An argument over pandemic stimulus checks\u00a0leaves\u00a0four family members shot dead and two injured in Indianapolis;\u00a0financial issues\u00a0lead to authorities finding six children and their parents inside a house set ablaze in Oklahoma; an escalating custody battle in Ohio precedes a man and members of his family shooting the mother of his child and seven of her family members; a father loses his job, piles his wife and kids in the family station wagon and plunges it into the Detroit River.<\/p>\n

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ENOCH, Utah (AP) \u2014 City leaders in a small Utah town choked up this week as they expressed shock after a murder-suicide carried out by a fellow church member left eight people dead in their close-knit community, including five children who were classmates with their kids. Though shocking, family mass killings are an all-too-common tragedy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3981,3982,1584,1237,1530,1585,1583],"class_list":["post-3722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-assailant","tag-family-homicide","tag-murder","tag-police","tag-shooting","tag-suicide","tag-utah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8155,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions\/8155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}