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A 21-year-old Utah woman is accused of shooting her best friend to death as a part of an alleged "suicide pact," according to multiple reports.

Heavenly Faith Garfield, 21, is in custody at the Utah County jail after being charged on Tuesday with one count of murder and one count of felony discharge of a firearm, inmate records show.

"We're knee-deep in trying to piece together everything we can to make sure what we think we know is accurate," Assistant Chief Bill Robertson with the Saratoga Springs Police Department told USA TODAY. "These cases a lot of times take a lot of twists and turns."

Robertson said some "circumstances" about this case weren't "your normal things," including a delayed report.

It is unclear if Garfield has retained legal counsel.

What did Saratoga Springs police officers find in Heavenly Faith Garfield's home?

Police officers arrived at the home in Saratoga Springs on Tuesday after Garfield's father called them around 3:30 p.m. and said his daughter had shot a 21-year-old woman "as a part of a pact" earlier that morning, according to an affidavit of probable cause obtained by KTVX.

"Officers responded inside the residence where they found a 21-year-old female who was obviously deceased,” the affidavit said, according to the Salt Lake City, Utah-based TV station.

Police found a 9mm bullet at the scene that appeared to be fired from a handgun, according to the court document. The gun was found near the deceased woman's body, the document continued.

Heavenly Faith Garfield had 'suicide pact' with deceased woman, reports say

Saratoga Springs police officers interviewed several of Garfield's family members, according to the court filing. Based on the interviews, officers learned the deceased woman "allegedly had a suicide pact with Heavenly Faith Garfield,” the affidavit said, according to KTVX.

Detectives with the department also contacted a friend of the deceased woman who showed them text messages from the 21-year-old saying how she wanted to commit suicide but "was too scared to kill herself," FOX 13 reported.

“The friend told detectives that the victim had also told him that she intended to commit suicide with her friend, whom he identified as Heavenly Faith, and that one of them would kill the other, and then kill themselves,” the court filing said, according to KTVX.

The two women had been planning to commit suicide together "for multiple weeks," the court document said.

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