Police Search for Answers After Four Killed in Utah Shooting

Courtesy: Steve Griffin/The Deseret News via AP

Police were awaiting autopsy results as they try to unravel why a boy allegedly shot and killed four people including three children inside a suburban Utah home.

Grantsville Police Cpl. Rhonda Fields says the victims' identities will be released following completion of the autopsies, which was expected sometime Monday.

The shooting happened Friday night in Grantsville, a town of 11,000 west of Salt Lake City.

The juvenile suspect was later arrested at a nearby hospital after someone drove him and a fifth shooting victim there. Investigators believe the victims were all related to one another.

A candlelight vigil was planned Monday night in Grantsville's city park.

It appears to be the largest mass shooting in Utah since 2007, when a shotgun-wielding gunman killed five people and himself at Trolley Square mall in Salt Lake City.

Tooele County School District officials planned to offer counseling to students when they return to school on Tuesday.

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