Eight members of a family — including five children — were found dead from fatal gunshot wounds at a home in Enoch City, Utah, on Wednesday, authorities said.
Enoch City Manager Rob Dotson told a Wednesday press conference that authorities have not found a motive so far, saying: “We don’t know why this happened, and we’re not going to guess.”
Dotson said the small community of around eight thousand people in southern Utah was devastated by the incident. “They’re feeling loss, they’re feeling pain and they have a lot of questions,” he said. “We are all family,” Dotson continued, explaining that “everybody has some connection to the individuals and some connections to the family.”Wednesday that all five children had been students at its schools and that the deaths were a “tragic loss” for the community.
“This loss is sure to raise many emotions, concerns, and questions for our entire school district, especially our students,” it said., Deidre Henderson, Lieutenant Governor of Utah, described the shooting as “a tragedy” and said she was praying for the community of Enoch City.
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