Couple’s shooting deaths in Utah investigated as homicides

A homicide probe is underway into the shooting deaths of a mates successful Utah, and 1 of the women has Colorado ties.

The bodies of Crystal Michelle Turner, 38, and Kylen Carrol Schulte, 24, were recovered Aug. 18 successful the South Mesa country of the La Sal Loop Road successful Grand County, Utah, according to the region sheriff’s office.

“The preliminary probe conducted by the aesculapian examiner’s bureau determined the origin of decease to beryllium from gunshot wounds,” the GCSO said successful a quality release. The sheriff’s bureau expressed “deepest sympathies and remorse to the victims’ families and friends.”

Schulte was calved successful Vail. Her aunt, Bridget Calvert, has organized a GoFundMe page to rise funds for ceremonial and memorial expenses for the families’ of the victims, arsenic good arsenic question expenses, lodging costs, nutrient and mislaid wages.

“Kylen and Crystal lived successful Moab, UT. They recovered their mode from the champion campsite to the adjacent but ever showed up for enactment with the champion ethic and top intent,” Calvert said successful the GoFundMe post.

The money has raised $32,758 arsenic of Tuesday afternoon, surpassing a extremity of $15,000. More than 500 donors person contributed.

On Tuesday, the Daily Beast quoted a person who said the mates complained of a “weirdo” camping adjacent them the nighttime earlier they disappeared.

“We were conscionable having a large time, having a mates drinks, and each they said was determination was a creep [staying] adjacent to them,” said Kayla Borza, 1 of the past radical to spot the mates alive. “And that was it.”

The sheriff’s bureau said it is “following up with immoderate and each leads that travel to our attention.”

Anyone with accusation connected the lawsuit is asked to telephone the sheriff’s bureau astatine 435-259-8115.