Five family members, including a 2-year-old, found dead along with a teenager with gunshot wounds in Utah home | US News

Five members of the same family, including a two-year-old girl, were found dead in a home in Utah.

A 17-year-old boy was also found alive, but with gunshot wounds.

According to local police, it is not yet clear whether he is a suspect or a victim in the case.

Roxeanne Vainuku, police spokeswoman for West Valley City, a suburb of Salt Lake City, said it was an isolated incident and “we do not believe there is a suspect at large.”

A nine-year-old girl and an eleven-year-old boy were found alongside the two-year-old and a 42-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman.

It was not revealed how the five people died and forensic teams were at the home as part of a murder investigation.

Police were alerted on Tuesday by a concerned relative who entered the house through the garage and found the 17-year-old alive.

The boy “suffered a pretty serious injury,” Ms. Vainuku said, adding that “we weren’t really able to communicate with him.”

When officers arrived, they discovered the victims in the main part of the home.

The victims appeared to match police’s findings of the home’s occupants – a two-parent family with four children aged 2 to 17, Ms Vainuku said.

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Police were initially called to the home on Monday after a relative said the woman who lived there had not been in contact for several days.

Officers received no response and left the building as there were no signs of an emergency. They returned Tuesday evening when the same women called them again.

West Valley City is located approximately 10 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.