U.S. policeman shot dead British wife, his two children and mother-in-law

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

Marie King, 55, was also found shot dead at the home. The mother-in-law had lived at the home on a permanent basis
A British mother and grandmother are among five members of the same family shot dead by an American police officer. 

Kelly Boren and her mother, Marie King, were killed when the former's husband, Joshua Boren, opened fire on his family before taking his own life.

Their bodies, alongside those of the couple's two children, were discovered at their home in Spanish Fork, Utah.

The women from Northampton moved to the U.S. where the Boren's two children, Haley and Joshua, went to school.

Sources close to the family claim the couple had been having marital problems before the incident on Thursday. 

Police were alerted to the house when Mr Boren did not show up for work at the Lindon Police Department. 

Officers at the scene reportedly saw shell casings and blood on the carpet through the house's windows before entering.

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

When they went inside, they found the family members bodies' in different bedrooms. It is not known whether they were asleep when the incident took place.

SOURCE-DILYM