Inset: Ricardo Trujillo Rojel (Utah). Background: Hobble Creek Canyon, where authorities found him and his missing children (KUTV).
According to Utah authorities, the search for two young children ended with a tipster spotting them with the man who allegedly killed their mother: the kids’ own father.
Ricardo Trujillo Rojel, 30, is currently in the Weber County Jail for aggravated murder and aggravated arson.
State authorities in Utah had put out an Amber Alert for Rojel’s two children, a 2- and 3-year-old. Dispatchers got reports of a fire at a trailer in the Riverdale Manufactured Home Community in the city of Riverdale on Monday at about 2:46 p.m., according to NBC Salt Lake City affiliate KSL.
A responding officer arrived to find the front door ajar.
