Utah mother killed 3 young children, then herself

Pat Reavy and Collin Leonard, KSL.com

OGDEN, Utah (KSL.com) — The deaths of a West Haven mother and her 3 young children recovered wrong a car earlier this week successful West Haven were nan consequence of a murder-suicide, investigators said Friday.

“The grounds indicates that Maribel Ibarra changeable her 3 children successful nan rear cargo area of her conveyance earlier turning nan weapon connected herself,” Weber County Sheriff’s Lt. Terance Lavely announced astatine a property conference.

The bodies of Ibarra, 32, and her 3 children — 2 boys and a girl, ages 4, 2 and 1 — were discovered Tuesday night. But Lavely says detectives judge nan shootings took spot sometime betwixt Sunday nighttime and Monday morning.

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Emergency dispatchers received a telephone astatine 9:47 p.m. connected Tuesday from personification who said they recovered 4 of their family members deceased astatine nan location astatine 1747 S. Prevedel Drive successful West Haven.

Although constabulary are not looking for further group successful what Lavely described arsenic a “tragic incident,” nan investigation is continuing — successful hopes of figuring retired why it happened. Lavely admitted Friday it’s a mobility to which detectives whitethorn ne'er get an answer.

A memorial has appeared connected nan stoop of nan location wherever nan killings took place, pinch stuffed animals, flowers and candles lining nan actual steps. Chalk drawings from nan children tin still beryllium seen connected nan driveway, visible to anyone driving into nan vicinity — a caller improvement of houses flanked by pastureland, business sites and nan West Haven cemetery.

At Friday’s property conference, members of Ibarra’s family provided a written statement, successful Spanish, to reporters referencing nan “deep sorrow” they person successful their hearts.

“We are going done an highly difficult time, pinch a symptom successful our hearts that cannot beryllium explained successful words owed to nan invaluable nonaccomplishment we person suffered, because they were nan ray of our lives,” nan family’s connection says. “As a family, we unluckily knew thing astir her intelligence health. We ever saw her arsenic a loving mother, which makes this truthful shocking for us. We do not cognize nan nonstop reasons why this calamity happened, and we profoundly regret it. This symptom is thing we wish nary 1 would ever person to spell through.”

They impulse others going done “difficult times” to activity thief and “never hide your pain.”

“We spot that God and nan outpouring of emotion from nan organization will support america beardown and guideline america to a way wherever we whitethorn 1 time find peace. We are grateful for nan support and prayers of nan full community,” nan family said.

The sheriff’s agency declined to merchandise nan names of nan 3 children who were killed.