Killing of the Haight family | |
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Location | Enoch, Utah, United States |
Date | January 4, 2023MST) | (
Attack type | Mass murder, mass shooting, familicide, murder-suicide |
Weapon | Firearm |
Deaths | 8 (including the perpetrator) |
Injured | 0 |
Perpetrator | Michael Haight |
Motive | Unknown |
On January 4, 2023, a familicide occurred in Enoch, Utah, United States when eight members of a single family, consisting of three adults and five children, were fatally shot in their home in a mass shooting. Authorities identified one of the adults, 42-year-old Michael Haight, as the perpetrator.[1][2] Haight had been investigated by the Enoch Police Department for domestic abuse allegations in 2020. Two weeks prior to the killings, his wife had commenced divorce proceedings.