A 25-year-old husband, Richard Peralta has shot dead his wife, Katherine Peralta, who worked as a researcher at the University of Utah parking lot on Thursday, before turning the gun on himself in a suspected murder-suicide.


Officers were called to the scene, where they discovered 23-year-old woman’s body and her husband, who had shot himself. He was rushed to hospital with gunshot wounds but he later died.

Police told KSL.com: 'It appears there was a domestic situation and this was where he came to confront his wife and it ended up in a tragedy. It appears there was a short confrontation and then it ended in gunfire.'