SARATOGA SPRINGS, Utah (KSL.com) — Police have identified an 8-year-old boy who died Friday in an apparent shooting in a Saratoga Springs townhome. His mother, who was also shot, remains in critical condition.

Saratoga Springs police released a statement Sunday naming Eli Painter as the boy who died and says investigators believe he was shot. It also identifies the wounded woman found with him as Jessica Lyman, 44, his mother.

A 15-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl were also in the house at 1244 North Willowbrook Lane, police said, with the girl making the initial call to police after finding her mother and brother unconscious.

Further details about the shooting and where the two were wounded were not made available.

When officers arrived at the home at 10:15 a.m. Friday, they discovered that Eli was “deceased without chance of revival,” the statement says.

Lyman was treated by paramedics and flown to a hospital in critical condition, where police said she remained Sunday.

On Friday, officers sealed off the home and began searching the area for witnesses. Police were also checking for possible surveillance video.

Forensic investigators and victim advocates were brought to the scene Friday. Police said Sunday that the identification of possible suspects is ongoing.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Saratoga Springs police at 801-766-6503.

Forward Keanu Dawes is the latest player from the Runnin’ Utes to enter the transfer portal, according to Sam Kayser of League Ready.

The 6-foot-9, 220-pound sophomore announced his intention on Saturday night, just ahead of Utah’s game against Butler on Monday in the inaugural College Basketball Crown at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. 

Dawes is at least the seventh player to enter the portal during the coaching transition from Josh Eilert — who was made interim coach after Craig Smith was fired in late February — to former Utah star Alex Jensen. Jensen was hired on March 6 and will take over full-time once the season ends for the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, where he’s an assistant to Jason Kidd. 

Dawes transferred from Rice after his freshman season and was part of the Runnin’ Utes’ main rotation, playing in 30 of 32 games, with one start. He led the team with 6.3 rebounds per game and was the fourth-leading scorer at eight points per game. 

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The eldest daughter of disgraced Utah parenting blogger Ruby Franke has taken action to help protect other kids with a new child actor law in her home state.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed the bill that Shari Franke helped promote, HB322, which gives certain payment and privacy protections to minors involved in entertainment, which could include traditional acting, i.e. acting in TV commercials, or acting in social media content.

“I have been working on drafting HB322 that would protect child influencers in our state,” Shari Franke said in a February Instagram post. “This bill would require parents to create a trust fund for their children and require parents to pay children a minimum amount. It would also allow children influencers, at 18, to have any content they appeared in to be removed from all social media platforms.”

Shari added that certain family bloggers and lobbyists in Utah are against the legislation, but wrote that “[i]f family vlogging is as good as ‘ethical’ family vloggers want you to think, they should not fear being mandated to pay their children (because they say the children are already being paid anyway).”

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“And if children are supposedly consenting to being filmed, why fear the kids would want content removed once 18?” she wrote.

Shari’s support of HB322 is one of many actions she has taken to try and help protect the rights of children whose parents are social media influencers since her mother pleaded guilty to multiple counts of child abuse in 2023 and sentenced to years in prison.

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Blogger Ruby Franke pleaded guilty to child abuse in Utah. (Instagram/ moms_of_truth)

Democratic Utah State Rep. Doug Owens, who sponsored the bill, explained its purpose to Fox News Digital.

“It’s a bill that has a couple different parts: one is it protects traditional child actors, like in the film industry or making commercials, [it] has their parents set aside 15% of their earnings for when they become an adult, and that is copying a number of other states,” Owens said. “And then it goes further and also includes protections for children in social media content.”

He added that it is “usually” children’s parents featuring kids in their content and, in turn, earning money from that content.

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Utah authorities found two malnourished and emaciated children at a home in Utah prior to arresting Franke and Hildebrandt. (Instagram/ moms_of_truth)

“It … requires the parents or other adult to save some of that money for the kids when they get to be an adult,” he said. “And then it also has a third part, which says that if you are a child in content creation, when you get to be an adult and you find that content embarrassing or emotionally damaging in some way, you can have that removed from the website later so that it gives kids some protection for when they get to be an adult.”

“[I]f you are a child in content creation, when you get to be an adult and you find that content embarrassing or emotionally damaging in some way, you can have that removed.”

— Utah State Rep. Doug Owens

Ruby Franke, a 43-year-old mother of six, and Jodi Hildebrandt, a 55-year-old mother of two, ran a joint parenting and lifestyle YouTube channel called ConneXions Classrooms before they were arrested and pleaded guilty to four of six counts of second-degree aggravated child abuse in a St. George courtroom in December 2023.

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Utah police found a “panic room” inside Jodi Hildebrandt’s $5.3 million Ivins home, where Ruby Franke sent her children to stay with Hildebrandt. (Washington County Attorney’s Office)

Utah authorities initially arrested Ruby Franke and Hildebrandt for abusing Franke’s two youngest children, a 9-year-old girl and 12-year-old boy, after Franke’s son approached a neighbor for help in 2022, and the neighbor called 911. Some of the abuse occurred in Hildebrandt’s home in Ivins, Utah.

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Prior to ConneXions, Ruby Franke ran a parenting vlog, or video blog, called 8Passengers, centered around her own family of six children and two parents. But the 8Passengers empire came crumbling down once users started to notice Franke’s unusual behavior and punishments for her children. Ruby Franke stopped posting to the 8Passengers YouTube channel after her last video was uploaded on June 5, 2019. 

In earlier videos without Hildebrandt, Franke complained about her children’s school using TikTok to teach dances, the dangers of sleepovers, bullying, and other topics. Some of her videos included her husband, including a “live couples workshop” about managing finances. (YouTube/ ConneXions)

Fox News is not aware of any evidence that Ruby Franke or anyone associated with 8Passengers engaged in any illegal conduct during the period she was actively vlogging on the 8Passengers YouTube channel.

Franke and Hildebrandt were both sentenced to serve up to 30 years in prison.

Shari also wrote a memoir titled “The House of My Mother,” in which she explains how she and her siblings were listed as 8Passengers LLC’s “employees.”

Shari Franke explained how she tried for years to get the Department of Family and Child Services to take action against her mother in her memoir. (Hulu)

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In dozens of YouTube videos and social media posts, Franke and Hildebrandt coached parents in calm voices from a living room couch on how to raise their children in “truth.” In a video posted just before their arrests, Hildebrandt said pain can be a good thing for children of a certain age.

The case has prompted discussions about how parenting and lifestyle blogs often present only a sliver of a person’s or family’s reality, as well as children’s rights to their own privacy if their parent is a social media star.