Sugar House murder suicide: Salt Lake City, Utah man, Travis Geddes shoots dead his doctor girlfriend, Sarah Hawley then self after argument at their shared home.
A Utah man has killed his girlfriend and then himself in what police are describing as a domestically-driven murder-suicide in Salt Lake City.
Travis Geddes, 30, shot dead his doctor girlfriend Sarah Hawley, 27, then took his own life at their Sugar House home on Sunday night abc4 reported.
The pair were heard arguing by their downstairs neighbors at around 8.30pm on Sunday.
The neighbor called police and by the time officers arrived, the pair were both dead.
Authorities have not yet give any indication what may have started the fight.
‘It’s very tragic, any time you have something like this happens,’ said Sgt. Brandon Shearer with Salt Lake City Police.
‘We don’t know if there were previous cases of domestic violence, but none had been reported to police, that’s why we encourage people to report — we have resources available to get people out of serious situations, or violent situations. The last thing we ever want is something tragic like this to happen,’ added Shearer.
Travis Geddes shoots doctor girlfriend Sarah Hawley- family medicine resident with University of Utah.
Travis and Sarah had been dating for at least three years.
She worked as a doctor in the University of Utah‘s family medicine residency program.
Hawley was a first-year family medicine resident with the University of Utah according to their website.
It was not immediately clear on Monday afternoon what Geddes did for work.
‘It appears as though at this point it is a murder-suicide, domestic related,’ Sgt. Brandon Shearer with the Salt Lake City Police Department said on Monday at a press conference.
Sarah was originally from San Francisco.
