'There were no warning signs': Respected police officer, 34, shot dead his wife, two children and mother-in-law before committing suicide just weeks after they returned from family trip to Disneyland

Bodies of Joshua Boren, 34, Kelly Boren, 32, Joshua Boren, 7, Haley Boren, 5, and Marie King, 55, discovered at home in Spanish Fork, Utah

Kelly Boren and her mother Marie King are originally from Northampton



Couple were having marital problems, police chief said today

Officer Boren showed no signs of distress prior to the killings and appeared to have left no suicide note



Murder-suicide comes 2 days after another tragedy in Utah where a mother shot dead her daughters, aged 13 and 7, before turning the gun on herself



A police officer shot dead his wife, two young children and mother-in-law before turning the gun on himself, authorities said today.



The bodies of Joshua Boren, 34, Kelly Boren, 32, Joshua Boren, 7, five-year-old Haley Boren and Marie King, 55, were discovered in a gruesome scene at their home in Spanish Fork, Utah on Thursday.

Ms King and Mrs Boren were originally from Northampton, but had moved to the U.S.

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The bodies of Joshua Boren, 34, Kelly Boren, 32, Joshua Boren, 7, five-year-old Haley Boren and Marie King, 55 (not pictured) were found dead in a murder suicide in Utah on Thursday

Five-year-old Haley Boren and her seven-year-old brother Joshua were shot dead at their Utah home by their father



Marie King, 55, was also found shot dead at the home. The mother-in-law had lived at the home on a permanent basis

Police said the five were found dead about 11pm when co-workers became concerned that Boren didn't show up for his night shift as a patrol officer at the Lindon Police Department.

Officers who looked through the window saw blood on the carpet and shell casings in the front room of the two-story home, police said.



After officers entered the home, they discovered 'a large quantity of blood on the stairway leading to the second floor of the residence,' police told KSL.

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Read more at http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=28387824#MGotfZK390wT2qtq. After officers entered the home, they discovered "a large quantity of blood on the stairway leading to the second floor of the residence."



Read more at http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=28387824#MGotfZK390wT2qtq.99 After officers entered the home, they discovered "a large quantity of blood on the stairway leading to the second floor of the residence."

When they went inside, they found Boren's 55-year-old mother-in-law Marie King dead in a bedroom, and Joshua Boren and his immediate family dead in the bedroom next door.

Police refused to share further details about the crime scene.

The couple were believed to be having marital problems, authorities said on Friday after speaking to people who knew them.

Mrs Boren posted this picture of her children on social media on Thursday. The family were found shot dead by her husband later that day

Mrs Boren, 32, was shot dead by her husband on Thursday along with her children. She and her husband were reportedly having martial problems

Joshua Boren, 34, and his seven-year-old son Joshua were found dead at their home in Spanish Fork late on Thursday night

TRAGEDY STRIKES AGAIN: 2ND UTAH MURDER-SUICIDE THIS WEEK

The five deaths come days after another Utah murder-suicide that left three people dead . Kyler Ramsdell-Oliva, 32, fatally shot her two daughters, Kenadee Oliva, 13, and Isabella Oliva, 7, on Tuesday before killing herself at their home in Syracuse, police said. The murder-suicide happened a day after Ms Ramsdell-Oliva's fiancé packed up to move out of their home.



However co-workers say Boren appeared upbeat and didn't show signs of distress before the killings.



No suicide note was found at the scene.

Lindon Police Chief Cody Cullimore told the Salt Lake Tribune that the Boren family had gone to Disneyland over the winter vacation.



He added that Officer Boren adored his children and that they were often at the police station visiting their father.



An emotional Spanish Fork Police Chief Steven Adams said today: 'There were no warning signs. This was a total shock to everyone.'

He said that many of his officers who had been at the scene were having a hard time dealing with the tragedy.

The police department responds quickly when an officer does not show up for an assigned shift as often something can be amiss.



Chief Adams said there had been no police call-outs to the home in the past.

He was also unaware if Officer Boren was suffering from mental health issues.



A timeframe of the shootings has yet to be established but it is known that Officer Boren made a phone to an unknown person at 4.30pm.

Neighbors said that they heard no gunshots at the home.



The police chief expected to have preliminary autopsy results late on Friday.



Mr Boren was a police officer in Lindon and had worked at the Utah County Sheriff's Office in the past.

Mrs Boren, 32, shared plenty of pictures of herself looking healthy and happy along with smiling shots of her children and husband on social media

Lindon City Police officer Joshua Boren. Colleagues said he showed no signs of being distressed before he shot dead his wife, two children and mother-in-law

Spanish Fork is a city of about 36,000 people located 9 miles south of Provo, home of Brigham Young University.



Officials at the Lindon Police Department said Boren worked for the Utah County Sheriff's Office for more than seven years before he was hired in October from a pool of more than 70 applicants.

'His conduct, behavior and professionalism were exemplary,' Lindon Police Chief Cody Cullimore said in a statement.



Kelly Boren posted a picture from a gun range on her Facebook page

Haley Boren, aged five, was found with gunshot wounds at her Utah home

Tragedy: The father took the lives of his two young children at their Utah home on Thursday in a shocking murder-suicide Investigators put police tape in front of a home today in Spanish Fork, Utah, where five people were found dead in a murder-suicide including two young children

'We are working closely with the Spanish Fork Police Department to investigate and hopefully come to an understanding of this tragic occurrence.'



The five deaths come just days after another Utah murder-suicide that left three people dead.

Kyler Ramsdell-Oliva, 32, fatally shot her two daughters, 13-year-old Kenadee Oliva and 7-year-old Isabella Oliva, on Tuesday evening before killing herself at their home in Syracuse, police said.

The murder-suicide happened a day after the Ramsdell-Oliva's fiance packed up to move out of the house, authorities said.