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Midvale • Unified Police officers Friday night were investigating two suspicious deaths at an apartment complex here.
The mother of a woman who lived at the complex was worried because she hadn't heard from her daughter for some time. She asked a maintenance worker at the complex to check on the couple, said Lt. Justin Hoyal, spokesman for the Unified Police Department.
The maintenance worker looked through a window into the apartment and saw the woman and a man apparently dead, Hoyal said.
Officers responded to the Remington Apartment complex near 7400 South State Street around 8:05 p.m. The apartment with the bodies is on the ground floor of a three-story building. On the door of the apartment was a notice giving the occupants three days to vacate the unit.
The responding officers made a quick, "protective sweep" of the apartment to make sure the area was safe.
"The officers saw two deceased," Hoyal said.
He said the officers secured the scene and contacted homicide detectives.
Ierenmia Tavita, a painter, said he was painting in a nearby unit around 2 p.m. on Friday when he heard a lady screaming or yelling from a building near where the two were found, but he wasn't exactly sure which unit it came from. Tavita said he has worked as a painter at the apartment for seven years and has never heard of anything like this happening there.
Tenari Brown, lives in the unit right across the grass from the one the two were found in. He said the occupants were a couple probably in their 50s. They never kept their windows closed, but Friday was different.
Brown usually walks past the unit on the way to the gym and the blinds of the windows are wide open and the woman is watching TV or up and about, but he said Friday the blinds were all closed.
"I thought it was strange," Brown said. "They are usually out doing things."
As of 11 p.m. police obtained a search warrant and began searching the home for clues for what led to the suspicious deaths.
The Tribune will provide more details as they are confirmed.