Somali National News Agency
So
Ar
Search
  • Home
  • Local News
    Local NewsShow More
    President Hassan Sheikh Arrives in Djibouti to Commemorate 25th Anniversary of Historic Arta Peace Conference
    October 29, 2025
    Prime Minister Hamza: Somalia and Türkiye Share Sixty Years of Friendship and Partnership
    October 29, 2025
    Somalia’s Environment Minister Visits Embassy in Berlin, Commends Strengthened Climate Cooperation with Germany
    October 29, 2025
    Somalia and Türkiye Discuss Strengthening Bilateral Trade and Investment Relations
    October 29, 2025
    Somalia and Germany Sign €75 Million Development Agreement to Support National Transformation Plan
    October 29, 2025
  • World News
    World NewsShow More
    Five people dead as rescue boat overturns in Pakistan floods
    September 7, 2025
    Landslide kills more than 1,000 in Sudan’s Darfur region, armed group says
    September 2, 2025
    Search for survivors still on after 800 killed in an earthquake in Afghanistan
    September 2, 2025
    An earthquake devastates eastern Afghanistan, killing more than 600 and destroying villages
    September 1, 2025
    Hamas accepts an Arab ceasefire proposal on Gaza as Palestinian death toll passes 62,000
    August 19, 2025
  • Articles
    ArticlesShow More
    President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh: The Djiboutian Leader Who Helped Rebuild Somalia’s Third Republic
    October 29, 2025
    Egypt’s New Administrative Capital: Ambitious, Smart and Underway
    October 27, 2025
    What We Risk When AI Systems Remember
    October 22, 2025
    America’s Tariff Weaponization: An Economic Analysis of 500% Tariffs and the Inevitable Bipolar Bifurcation
    October 19, 2025
    The ICG’s Somalia Report “ A Biased Narrative Designed to Sustain Fragility”
    October 18, 2025
  • Business
    BusinessShow More
    America’s Tariff Weaponization: An Economic Analysis of 500% Tariffs and the Inevitable Bipolar Bifurcation
    October 19, 2025
    Somalia Unveils the Blueprint for a Modern and Sustainable Mogadishu
    December 21, 2024
    Djibouti Launches $57.4 Million Youth Entrepreneurship Project to Combat Climate Change
    November 25, 2024
    FM meets Minister of Investment of Saudi Arabia
    October 28, 2024
    President Hassan Sheikh Inaugurates New LPG Storage Center in Mogadishu
    May 12, 2024
  • Sports
    SportsShow More
    Somali Ambassador to Kenya Congratulates Dekadaha FC on Historic CAF Confederation Cup Victory
    September 28, 2025
    Somalia’s Dekadaha FC faces Sudan’s Alzamala Sports Club in Nairobi
    September 20, 2025
    Mogadishu Stadium to Host Star-Studded Match Featuring Somali Legends and International Football Icons
    May 27, 2025
    Arsenal held at Brighton while Man City bounce-back continues
    January 5, 2025
    Galmudug wins the Inter-State Football Tournament
    January 29, 2024
  • Tenders
    TendersShow More
Reading: Utah man kills family, leaves suicide note
Share
Font ResizerAa
Somali National News AgencySomali National News Agency
  • SOMALI
  • ARABIC
Search
  • Home
  • Local News
  • World News
  • Articles
  • Business
  • Sports
  • Tenders
Follow US
©2023 || All rights reserved SONNA
Somali National News Agency > Blog > World News > Utah man kills family, leaves suicide note
World News

Utah man kills family, leaves suicide note

By Khadarow
Last updated: April 8, 2023
3 Min Read
Share

SALT LAKE CITY (SONNA) — A Utah man who fatally shot his wife, her mother, and the couple’s five kids after he was investigated for child abuse left a suicide note saying he “would rather rot in hell” than continue enduring what he called controlling behavior by his wife, investigators wrote in a report released on Friday.

The claims in the suicide note left by Michael Haight, 42, stand in stark contract to conclusions by investigators in the 57-page report that overwhelmingly portray Haight, and not his wife, as controlling and abusive. The report cites the family’s communications before the killings and interviews from community members conducted after the January tragedy.

“This is nonsense and I can’t handle it for one more day. We will not be a burden on society. I kept asking for help and you wouldn’t listen,” Michael Haight, 42, wrote in the note included in the report released by the city of Enoch.

“I would rather rot in hell than to put up with another day of this manipulation and control over me,” Haight wrote.

Haight’s attorney, Matt Munson, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.

The report builds off documents released after the murder-suicide that detailed how Haight removed firearms from the home, was investigated on suspicion of child abuse, and searched online for “gunshot in a house” in the lead-up to the shootings.

It paints a picture of Haight as a volatile husband concerned about maintaining a facade of perfection throughout the southern Utah community in which the family lived, where the majority of residents are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The report also details how bedding was laid over all but one of his children’s bodies in bedrooms throughout the home. Body camera footage released along with the report shows a tidy home.

Investigators also interviewed a neighbor who said she was awakened on the night before the eight bodies were discovered when she heard multiple “bangs” that she assumed were fireworks.

The report describes the circumstances leading up to the killings, which took place two weeks after Haight’s wife, Tausha Haight, filed for divorce.

People close to the Haights interviewed by investigators whose names were redacted in the report said that Michael Haight had lost his job at Allstate Insurance in nearby Cedar City, Utah and was seeking to start an independent agency.

Source: AP

Share This Article
Facebook Whatsapp Whatsapp Email Copy Link Print

MORE NEWS

Ode to Yan’an: How a Song Inspired Chinese Youth During Wartime

ArticlesCulture
August 19, 2025

President Hassan Sheikh Arrives in Djibouti to Commemorate 25th Anniversary of Historic Arta Peace Conference

DJIBOUTI (SONNA) – The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud,…

October 29, 2025

Nasra Bashir Ali: Women can do like men, just try as I do

Mogadishu{SONNA}-:The prominent Somali journalist Nasra Bashir Ali, urged girls to depend on their selves and…

May 31, 2020

Weekly News Buletin Ministry of information, Culture and Tourism 1 August 2019

Weekly News Buletin Ministry of information, Culture and Tourism 1 August 2019 Bulletin Vol 10

September 2, 2019

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE

China appreciates Somalia’s solidarity with Chinese to overcome in fighting the epidemic virus

Mogadishu(SONNA)-Chinese Ambassador to Somalia, Qin Jian has expressed deep appreciation to Somalia’s solidarity with China and overcome in fighting the…

NewsWorld News
February 13, 2020

Turkey approves Finland’s bid to join NATO

Ankara, (SONNA) - Türkiye on Friday said it is approving the process of Finland's NATO membership protocol in its parliament.…

World News
March 18, 2023

UN Security Council extends mandates of missions in Somalia, Iraq, Darfur

UNITED NATIONS(SONNA)-The Security Council on Friday adopted resolutions to renew the mandates of peacekeeping or political missions in Somalia, Iraq…

CultureNewsWorld News
May 30, 2020

Israel bombs homes in central Gaza, killing several families

As Israel’s aggression expands in the central Gaza Strip, civilian casualties are mounting amid the bombardment of residential homes in…

World News
February 10, 2024

Somali National News Agency established in 1964. It is one of the main pillars of the Ministry of Information, Culture, and Tourism.

  • Home
  • Local News
  • World News
  • Articles
  • Business
  • Sports
  • Tenders
  • SNTV
  • RADIO MOGADISHU
  • DALKA JOURNAL
  • TOURISM DEPARTMENT

Follow US: 

  • MoICT
  • VILLA SOMALIA
  • OPM SOMALIA

All rights reserved SONNA

©2023

Welcome Back!

Sign in to your account

Username or Email Address
Password

Lost your password?