SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A Salt Lake City man told police he shot three people staying at his house, including a baby, because they wouldn't move out, prosecutors said Thursday.
Alexander Hung Tran, 32, was charged Thursday with three counts of aggravated murder. The bodies were found Sept. 18 after one victim's 8-year-old grandson wasn't picked up from school.
Tran had been living in the basement of the house his mother bought for him, and the three victims where living on the main floor, police said. When she found out the he was letting people stay there, she asked for them move out.
Tran told her they wouldn't leave but called a few days later - the day of the deaths - and reported they were gone, prosecutors wrote in charging documents.
Their bodies were found after Heike Poike, 50, didn't pick up her grandson from school and officials called police. They stopped to check on Poike and found her dead, along with her 2-month-old granddaughter Lyrik Poike and an acquaintance, Dakota Smith, 28.
Tran was also at the house with a gun, and police say he acknowledged the shootings.
The baby's mother is in jail and the identity of the baby's father is unclear, police have said.