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Salt Lake City – A new domestic-violence report released Thursday, which includes suicide data for the first time, shows 65 Utahns died in domestic-violence-related incidents in 2005.
The report shows that 10 men and 11 women died in domestic- violence-related homicides while 44 others committed suicide. All the homicide suspects were male, according to the report by the Utah Department of Health.
Of the 44 people who committed suicide, 42 were male and two were female. In addition, 41 percent were substance abusers, 29 percent had a recent legal problem and 24 percent had mental- health woes. Between 2000 and 2002, Utah averaged 18 domestic- violence-related homicides.
