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OAK HARBOR, river – A part-time creator told a 911 official that he killed his spouse and three young children and was "getting primed to kill myself" inside their farmhouse on land tended by his kinsfolk for at least quaternary generations.

His grandmother, who lives meet steps away, watched finished her blinds as deputies swarmed around the house. She desperately proven to reach 31-year-old Alan Atwater by sound meet after midnight on Sat after chance on a personnel detector that her grandson had effort everyone inside.

She then went to the bag with the sheriff in hopes they were alive.

"They were every gone," said Joan Atwater.

Deputies in northern river said the bodies of Atwater and the rest of the kinsfolk were institute unitedly with gunshot wounds in an upstair bedroom. The youngest, 1-year-old Brady, was in a bed. The added children, Ashley, 4, and Isaac, 2, were institute on the story near their mother, Dawn, 30.

The exclusive suggestion of pain came recently when Atwater confided in Joan Atwater's economise that he and his spouse of fivesome years were having marital problems.

It was nothing, though, that caused some alarm, Joan Atwater said.

"Who doesn't hit marital problems," she said, clutching photos of her grinning great-grandchildren. "We'll never know what really brought this on."

Atwater had no criminal record, and the Algonquin County Sheriff's duty wasn't alive of some disputes between Atwater and his wife, a stay-at-home mother.

Relatives said that Atwater could hit overturned to plentitude of kinsfolk members for support nearby. At least quaternary live within range of their farmhouse.

A sign on an older wooden barn behindhand the concern bears the kinsfolk name. Around the corner, added flushed barn reads "D. Atwater 1904."

Atwater helped his grandmother's economise ofttimes around the farm and would become over to their concern to support mend her computer. They had meet been unitedly the period before, she said.

She described him as a smiling, "happy-go-lucky kid" who kept some troubles to himself.

The 911 call came in meet after midnight, the sheriff's duty said.

"There has been a intense happening at my house. My spouse and three children are dead," Alan Atwater said in a calm, stabilize voice in the 911 call, according to the sheriff's office. He told the official he had effort them.

Deputies arrived within transactions at the farmhouse in Oak Harbor, most 25 miles south of Toledo. They didn't start the bag until digit hours later, after they'd proven to occurrence the grouping inside by sound and finished a loudspeaker.

The farmhouse, with a wooden swing set in the field and digit diminutive programme barns, sits next to a field and in the shadows of the Davis-Besse nuclear plant, where Alan Atwater worked in the maintenance department.

Authorities said there was no communication anyone added was involved or that the killings were planned, and they were not sure Sat whether Atwater mitt some type of note.

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