Published January 17, 2014
Vigil honors Utah family killed in murder-suicide
Spanish Fork » Marital problems are investigators’ only clue to murder-suicide that left five dead.
By Michael McFall
| The Salt Lake Tribune
Spanish Fork • Heidi Wollebaek was
running a few months ago when she broke down bawling. She had her first
cage fight coming up and did not think she could face it.
Then Kelly Boren, her friend running out with
her, told her that she could. On the day of the fight, Boren was
ringside, cheering on Wollebaek. For the fighter transplanted in Utah
from Wyoming without family or friends to support her, Boren was a light
and a strength in her corner.
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Funeral scheduled
Services for Kelly, Jaden and Haley
and Marie King have been scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday at Lindquist’s
Layton Mortuary 1878 N. Fairfield Road. A visitation for family and
friends will be 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday and 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at
the mortuary.
"She was there with me every step of the way," Wollebaek said.
But now Wollebaek has to enter the ring without
her. Boren, 32, her two children and her mother were shot and killed
Thursday night at their Spanish Fork home. Police suspect that Boren’s
husband, Lindon Police Officer Joshua Boren, 34, killed his wife as well
as 7-year-old Joshua "Jaden" Boren, 5-year-old Haley Boren and
55-year-old Marie King then killed himself.
The family’s friends, relatives and coworkers
gathered at Gold’s Gym Saturday night for a vigil to honor their
memories. The gym was Kelly Boren’s second home; she worked out and
socialized there nearly every day.
"This is where we all met and bonded," said her
friend RiRi Whiting, who was among about 100 people who filed into the
building, embracing each other and shedding tears.
Whiting was driving to work Friday when she
heard the news. After the shock, she broke down at work and went home
early. This feels like a movie that she just wants to end. She never saw
a temper in Josh Boren. He was an awesome dad, as best she knew.
That is how his niece Ashley Ohran wants the
world to remember. The 17-year-old tearfully recalled hanging off his
arms as a child as he lifted her up. He was a "big guy," which
intimidated some people, but to her, he was a "big teddy bear."
Kelly Boren was the best mother, and their children were sweet as well, said Ohran, who lived nearby and used to watch them.
"It was hard for me. I was really close to them," she said. "I saw them all the time. ... Nobody saw this coming."
The deaths blindsided Stacy Archuleta, Kelly
Boren’s gym partner and concert buddy. Kelly Boren would get into the
middle of any mosh pit and fight her way to the front, Archuleta
recalled. "She loved to rock."
Archuleta, like many others, stepped forward in
the aerobics room of the gym during the vigil to share her memories of
Boren. She pointed out that several purple balloons around the room
symbolize domestic violence awareness.
"If you see something, say something," Archuleta said. "... I will never again not say something."
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