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‘How can it end like this?’ After a man shot and killed his girlfriend and himself in their Sugar House home, two families grapple with how they died.

Less than a year ago, Sarah Hawley and her boyfriend, Travis Geddes, stopped in Nevada during their move from the San Francisco Bay area to Salt Lake City. Hawley, a doctor fresh out of medical school, was about to begin her residency at the University of Utah.

Geddes' dad, Rick, said he has a picture from that day. There’s Hawley, “smiling widely," and Geddes in the driver’s seat of their rental truck, flashing his father a thumbs-up.

Nothing in that moment, Rick Geddes said, or any he’d witnessed before, seemed to foreshadow the tragedy that would occur here.