Double Murder-Suicide In Utah Tied To Iraq War

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Reeves was a military veteran with a history of violence. The 30-year-old Murray man was arrested in August 2014 for threatening to kill the same family members.

Reeves was facing five counts of aggravated assault and four counts of domestic violence in the presence of a child. In January he was given a plea deal and placed in Veterans Court. If he completed the 36-month course, all charges would have been dropped.
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‘War was not good for John,’ says mother of Utah woman murdered by Army vet
The Salt Lake Tribune
By JENNIFER DOBNER
June 12, 2015

Murder-suicide » Johnathon Andrew Reeves shot and killed his fiancee and young son Sunday before killing himself, police say.

Sheryl Adams didn't hear the sound of the gunshot over the phone.

She only heard her daughter screaming; the exact words, unintelligible.

"She was just screaming at him. Then I heard something muffled in the background and then the phone went quiet," Adams said.

That was at 11: 46 a.m. on Sunday, June 7.

By 11:51, police dispatchers were fielding a 911 call about a shooting in the Murray apartment complex that left 34-year-old Jamie Salazar, her 2-year-old son , Jordan, and the boy's 30-year-old father dead.

Murray police are investigating the incident as a double-murder suicide and believe Johnathon Andrew Reeves, an Army veteran who was struggling to deal with the emotional remnants of a tour in Iraq, shot his fiancée and child before turning the gun on himself.

"The war was not good for John. He had lots of flashbacks" said Adams. "He couldn't have been thinking clearly. He couldn't have had his head on straight. If he had, he wouldn't have done this."
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