21-year-old Utah woman arrested on murder charge after friend shot dead in uncompleted suicide pact
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A Utah woman has been arrested and charged with murder after a friend was shot in what police said was an uncompleted suicide pact the women had reached several weeks earlier. Police documents say Heavenly Faith Garfield, 21, intended to die by suicide but was "too scared to kill herself."
Garfield was arrested Tuesday and remains jailed in Utah County on Wednesday without bail, where jail records show she faces charges of murder and discharge of a firearm. Jail records didn't list an attorney who could speak on her behalf and no charges have been filed.
A voicemail seeking comment left Wednesday with a phone number believed to belong to Garfield's mother was not immediately returned.
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