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15-year-old who killed siblings, 4 and 10, arrested

A 15-year-old boy from Utah was sent to juvenile detention after being questioned for the deaths of his two brothers.

ABC 4 reports the brother's mother called authorities Thursday after she found her 4-year-old son dead inside their home and she couldn't find her other two sons.

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Officials later found the mother's 10-year-old son dead inside the home.

Davis County Sheriff Todd Richardson, said the wounds on the dead boys seemed to have come from a knife.

Richardson added that the 15-year-old brother had fled the house, but was caught by authorities shorty after midnight.

"He had some wounds," Richardson said.

After being aprehended by Layton police the teen was questioned and later sent to to a juvenile facility in Davis County.

According to Richardson, the teen acted alone and there are no others at large.

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