A Utah caregiver who was supposed to be entertaining three special needs men for the day instead left them inside a running van in his “very small” garage, leading to their deaths while he ate and watched anime for more than four hours, cops say.
Isaiah Vaughn Pulu is facing three counts of murder in the deaths of Colton Moser, 25, Mosa’ati Moa, 22, and Timothy Jones, 39. According to a probable cause affidavit, cops and paramedics responded Feb. 6 to an apartment complex in the 2700 block S. High Parkway in West Valley, just outside of Salt Lake City. First responders found Moser, Moa and Jones unconscious in a van inside a garage.
An autopsy found no trauma on the bodies and it appears the men died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Cops wrote that the CO alarm in the apartment above the garage was going off and got as high as 600 parts per million. It’s unclear how high it was in the garage…