'Wanted to … watch my show': Caregiver watched anime while 3 disabled men died of carbon monoxide poisoning in garage, cops say

A Utah caregiver who was expected to beryllium entertaining 3 peculiar needs men for the time alternatively near them wrong a moving van successful his "very small" garage, starring to their deaths portion helium ate and watched anime for much than 4 hours, cops say.

Isaiah Vaughn Pulu is facing 3 counts of murder successful the deaths of Colton Moser, 25, Mosa'ati Moa, 22, and Timothy Jones, 39. According to a probable origin affidavit, cops and paramedics responded Feb. 6 to an flat analyzable successful the 2700 artifact S. High Parkway successful West Valley, conscionable extracurricular of Salt Lake City. First responders recovered Moser, Moa and Jones unconscious successful a van wrong a garage.

An autopsy recovered nary trauma connected the bodies and it appears the men died of c monoxide poisoning. Cops wrote that the CO alarm successful the flat supra the store was going disconnected and got arsenic precocious arsenic 600 parts per million. It's unclear however precocious it was successful the garage.

Pulu, 25, is employed by Safe & Sound Services LLC, which works with disabled adults successful the authorities system. It's Pulu's occupation to prime up clients from their radical homes and instrumentality them to an outing specified arsenic a parkland oregon a promenade for the day. Instead, Pulu drove them to his location and near the van moving with the men wrong portion helium went into his apartment, the affidavit stated.

"I conscionable wanted to get immoderate nutrient and ticker my show," Pulu allegedly told cops.

The suspect said 1 of the men was being combative erstwhile helium picked him up, truthful helium took them for a thrust and ended up astatine his home. He claimed helium arrived astatine his flat astir 10:30 a.m. and went inside, leaving the men successful the van. He said helium kept the car connected with the vigor turned up and the windows down.

He said helium had been trying to summation weight, truthful helium wanted to eat. He besides watched anime connected TV. He said helium came backmost extracurricular astir 1:30 p.m. to find the men unconscious. He called his parent successful a panic and past called 911.

But Ring camera footage told a overmuch antithetic story. It showed helium really arrived astatine his flat astir 9 a.m., cops wrote. Around 1:30 p.m. — immoderate 4 1/2 hours aboriginal — helium came retired to cheque connected the men. He went successful and retired of the flat respective times and allegedly waited astir 20 minutes to telephone 911.

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In the 911 call, Pulu claimed the store had been unfastened the full clip the men were successful the van, which it was not, cops wrote.

Detectives besides spoke with Pulu's brag who said the suspect initially lied to him, saying that lone 2 of the men were successful the van portion the 3rd was successful the apartment, cops wrote. The brag knew Pulu was being untruthful due to the fact that helium already knew each 3 of them were dead, the ailment said.

According to the CEO of the company, employees are not allowed to instrumentality clients home. Pulu had besides been disciplined successful January for abandoning clients for astir a fractional hour, per the complaint.

A GoFundMe relationship statement for Moser called his decease a "shocking and profoundly senseless enactment of negligence."

"Our satellite stopped successful an instant, and thing volition ever consciousness the aforesaid again. The symptom of losing him this mode is thing nary household should ever person to endure," his household wrote. "Colton had a large agleam grin and a precise peculiar tone that impacted everyone astir him. He taught america each truthful overmuch astir however beauteous being antithetic genuinely was and to not justice others. We are truthful grateful for the 25 years we were honored to beryllium his household and volition miss him each day."

The families of Moa and Jones besides started GoFundMe accounts.

Moa had "a unsocial personality, a gentle spirit, and a mode of touching lives simply by being himself. His nonaccomplishment has near an immeasurable void successful our hearts," his household wrote.

Jones' household said helium "was profoundly loved, and his passing has near a profound void successful the lives of many."

Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill announced the charges astatine a property league connected Friday, saying Pulu's actions showed a "depraved indifference to quality life."

"There are 3 individuals, who are disabled individuals, who request oversight who request attraction from folks, (and) they are near unattended with the conveyance moving and extended play of time. There's besides been a informing that helium had earlier that said that helium cannot permission radical unattended, which helium was alert of," Gill told reporters, per section NBC affiliate KSL.

Pulu is astatine the Salt Lake County Jail without bond.