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CV NEWS FEED // After a 16-hour manhunt, Utah police have detained a man who claims to be a “transgender woman.” The man has admitted to murdering his parents and attempting to kill his brother, according to recent reports.
The self-admitted murderer, who has been identified as Mia Bailey, told police following his arrest, “I would do it again. I hate them,” according to news outlet KSLTV. Bailey, 28, legally changed his name from Collin Troy Bailey to Mia Bailey last year and “changed” his gender from male to female.
According to the news outlet the Toronto Sun, the arrest report details that Bailey “told officers that she (allegedly) went to the residence with the intent to kill her parents.” Toronto Sun noted that police are still investigating a motive.
KSLTV reported that Bailey entered his parents’ house in Washington City, Utah, on June 18 and shot both of his parents, Gail, 69, and Joseph, 70, multiple times. Bailey’s brother and his brother’s wife were in another room in the house at the time and locked themselves in the room. Bailey’s brother and sister-in-law eventually were able to escape out of the home and call 911.
After Bailey was arrested, he detailed committing the crime to detectives. According to a separate news report from KSLTV, the police booking affidavit states that Bailey told detectives that he “entered the house and almost immediately began shooting” at his mother, and then shot his father in the head.
After this, Bailey said he went downstairs for a time, and then came back upstairs. Upon returning, Bailey approached his father, “who was lying on the ground and shot him one more time in the head to make sure that he was dead,” according to the affidavit. Bailey then did the same to his mother.
According to the affidavit, Bailey also shot once into the closed bedroom door where his brother was locked inside. The affidavit adds that Bailey “stated that her brother was not her main target, but she would not have been sad had the gunshot killed him.”
Bailey fled the scene in a car and an extensive police search for him ensued. Local residents were given a shelter-in-place order.
Bailey was located and surrounded by police forces around 10:30 a.m. on June 19, and he “surrendered without further incident,” according to KSLTV.
KSLTV reported that local resident Richard Zyszkiewicz “said there has been ‘volatility and bad vibes’ going on within the family.”
Additionally, Bailey told police that there were “strained relationships with multiple other family members,” according to the affidavit.
KSLTV reported that “Bailey was booked into jail on three first-degree felony counts of aggravated murder, one count of aggravated burglary, a first-degree felony; and seven counts of felony discharge of a firearm, six of which are first-degree felonies and one a third-degree felony.”
