Salt Lake police investigating three deaths as suspicious

Salt Lake police investigating three deaths as suspicious photo Salt Lake police investigating three deaths as suspicious

Police arrested a man who lives in the basement of the house where three bodies were discovered on Friday in Salt Lake City, Utah.



UPDATE: Police have identified all of the victims: Heike Poike, a woman of age fifty and Lyrik Poike, who was only two months old.

Detective Dennis McGowan said police found the bodies on Friday around 6pm while looking for the family of an Escalante Elementary School pupil, an 8-year-old boy whose family had not picked him up after school.

He says Tran lived in the home’s basement and allowed the victims to live in the home, but didn’t know if they paid rent.

Officers took the boy to three separate homes where his relatives live, finding nobody there, before coming to the boy’s home in the city’s Westpointe neighborhood at 639 N. Sir Philip Drive (1990 West) around 5 p.m.

Detectives interviewed Tran in connection to the shooting deaths and “determined that he shot and killed all three individuals”, said Salt Lake police detective Richard Chipping, according to the Daily Mail. After no one responded at the front door, the officer found the back door was open and searched the house, McGowan said.

Chipping didn’t have details about how many gunshot wounds each of the victims had or Tran’s behavior when police encountered him.

Alexander Tran, 32, was the man inside the home, and officers said he complied with the officers.

“They kept saying they bought it for him to give it to him”, Fullmer said.

“He’d be beating on the doors, beating on the walls, things of that nature”, Fullmer said. A warrant was issued for his arrest when he failed to appear in court on September 10, according to court records. Later Saturday, police identified the third victim as 28-year-old Dakota Smith. The 8-year-old is a sibling of Lyric’s, police told the station, and has been placed with family members, the station reported.

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