# Family of 8 shot dead in Utah home **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** breaking-news\ **Created:** [January 5, 2023, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-of-8-shot-dead-in-utah-home/977709 "2023-01-05T09:18:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-of-8-shot-dead-in-utah-home/977709/1 "2023-01-05T09:18:50Z")
Here is the Reuters story as it is breaking. > **[Family of eight found shot dead in Utah home](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/eight-people-found-shot-dead-utah-home-2023-01-05/)** > > Eight members of a family including five minors were found dead of gunshot wounds in a southwestern Utah home on Wednesday, a tragedy that officials said devastated the small town of Enoch City. “We don’t know why this happened. We’re not going to guess,” the city manager said. The victims include 5 minors. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-of-8-shot-dead-in-utah-home/977709/2 "2023-01-05T10:02:01Z")
It seems that stories like this end up revealing that although everyone was shot, Daddy’s was the last and was self inflicted. Speculation on my part. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-of-8-shot-dead-in-utah-home/977709/3 "2023-01-05T10:16:17Z")
_Officials said in a statement there was no threat to the public and no suspects were believed to be at large._ Yep. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-of-8-shot-dead-in-utah-home/977709/4 "2023-01-05T11:59:34Z")
Well, officials did say the same thing after the 4 students were killed in Idaho and then later backtracked. But I agree the odds are that it was a family member. I’m very sorry for the family and friends of all these poor people. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-of-8-shot-dead-in-utah-home/977709/5 "2023-01-05T22:21:53Z")
I saw a follow up to this story. Looks like Dad wasn’t happy that Mom filed for divorce, so everyone paid. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-of-8-shot-dead-in-utah-home/977709/6 "2023-01-06T14:34:32Z")
I can see why the wife would want a divorce. Family annihilators are the lowest of the low. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-of-8-shot-dead-in-utah-home/977709/7 "2023-01-06T15:53:06Z")
Confirmed as a familicide/suicide. This is the first mass killing in the US this year. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-of-8-shot-dead-in-utah-home/977709/8 "2023-01-07T04:54:32Z")
We’re discussing this extensively on another website, and yes, it was Mom, Dad, and 5 kids, and the maternal grandmother, whom I assume happened to be there and he wanted to eliminate witnesses. People who are from the area (southern Utah) are saying that the father lost his job a few weeks earlier, and the family was “known to law enforcement.” Read into that whatever you may. There’s a lot of speculation that he was abusing at least one of the children, most likely the oldest daughters who were 12 and 17, and the mother filed for divorce (and possibly moved her mother in) upon finding out.