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Alexander Hung Tran, who was found holding a gun inside a Utah home with three dead people, has been formally charged in the triple homicide.
Alexander Hung Tran has been charged with triple homocide. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
In court documents filed Thursday the suspect claimed that his mother, “made me do it.”
The murders occurred on September 18, and the victims are 50-year-old Heike Poike, her 2-month-old granddaughter Lyrik Poike, and a 28-year-old man named Dakota Smith. Poike had failed to pick up her 8-year-old grandson at school, and police arrived at the residence to check on the family. That’s when they found Tran and arrested him.
Tran faces three counts of criminal homicide/aggravated murder.
The document states that when police entered the home, they located the three victims in an upstairs living room. Tran was in the basement and officers then arrested Tran without incident.
Police spoke with Tran’s mother, who told them she had purchased the home where the bodies were found for her son earlier that month. Tran told officers she wanted to evict them and Tran told his mother they would not leave. Tran reportedly called his mother on the day of the shooting and told her they were “gone.”
Neighbors said Tran had been acting erratically before the murders.
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