October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. According to the National Coalition of Domestic Violence, one in three women and one in four men will be victims of some sort of physical violence by a partner sometime in their lifetime. Calls to the Domestic Abuse Hotline in Utah were up 22 percent last year.
Lauren McCluskey, the University of Utah student who was killed Monday, was the victim of a man who lied to her about his background and, when she broke off their relationship, began harassing her.
Also on Monday, police responded to a domestic violence call and found Jason Whittle holding a knife to his mother’s throat.