Tawnia McGeehan, a Utah mother who traveled to Las Vegas with her 11-year-old daughter Addi Smith for a weekend cheer competition, has been identified by police as the woman who fatally wounded her child inside a hotel room before taking her own life.
The first sign that something was wrong came Sunday morning (February 15), when Utah Xtreme Cheer announced that Addi had failed to appear for scheduled competition events and that both mother and daughter were missing.
“This is not the post we ever wanted to make, but we need the cheer community’s help,” the team wrote. “At this point, we are extremely worried. Police have been contacted.”
