Five family members are dead and a 17-year-old boy was clinging to life Wednesday after police said a relative discovered the victims inside a north central Utah home.
The bodies and the survivor were found Tuesday night inside a house in a West Valley City, a southwest Salt Lake City suburb, police first reported on X.
Police said the dead − a 42-year-old man, a 38-year-old woman, an 11-year-old boy, a 9-year-old girl and a 2-year-old girl − appear to all live in the home.
It was not immediately known how the victim's died but their deaths were being investigated as homicides, West Valley City Police Department spokesperson Roxeanne Vainuku said during a press conference late Tuesday night.