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- On Friday, Dec. 19, Mia Bailey was sentenced to up to life in prison for the deaths of her parents
- Joseph, 70, and Gail Bailey, 69, were fatally shot when she broke into their family home on June 18, 2024
- Bailey is set to serve two consecutive sentences of 25 years to life for each of their murders and up to five years for aggravated assault
A Utah woman could spend the rest of her life in prison after pleading guilty to fatally shooting her parents.
On Friday, Dec. 19, Mia Bailey was sentenced to two consecutive sentences of 25 years to life for the murders of her parents, Joseph and Gail Bailey, and up to five years for aggravated assault, KUTV, ABC4 and The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
Bailey, 30, allegedly shot her 70-year-old father twice in the head and her 69-year-old mother four times after breaking into their Washington City home on June 18, 2024, KUTV and KSL.com previously reported.
Bailey then went downstairs to shoot through her brother’s bedroom, where he was locked inside with his wife at the time. She allegedly told police that she didn’t care if the shot killed her brother, per KUTV.
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Bailey was arrested on June 19, 2024, and charged with 11 felony counts for the double homicide of her parents and the attempted murder of her brother, according to the Washington City Police Department.
Her sentencing comes after she pleaded guilty to the murders of her parents in November 2025, admitting that she “intentionally” shot and killed them, according to court documents obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune.
Attorney Ryan Stout asked the judge to give Bailey concurrent sentences rather than consecutive due to having no prior criminal activity and her mental illness, which he argued “left her functioning at the cognitive and emotional level of a young child.”
Stout said she was diagnosed with autism, psychosis, schizophrenia, ADHD, OCD and may also have bipolar disorder, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
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Bailey’s mental illness was also recognized by her brother Dustin as he spoke in court. He alleged that she committed the crimes as a result of “powerful hormones” and other drugs he believed were irresponsibly prescribed during her transgender treatment, per The Salt Lake Tribune.
“We support LGBTQ rights fully. This has nothing to do with identity,” said Dustin, according to the outlet. ”Providing powerful hormones to a person in a psychiatric crisis without proper psychiatric safeguards is not affirming care. It is reckless … it acted as an accelerant, intensifying instability, impairing judgment and compounding risk. That failure harmed Mia and it endangered our parents.”
Bailey said in a statement during sentencing that she was “sincerely, deeply sorry” to her family for the crime and that she couldn’t live with herself, per ABC4.
The final decision on the length of Bailey’s term will be made by the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole after sentencing, according to KUTV.
PEOPLE has contacted the Washington County Attorney’s Office for comment.
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