Daily Mail
A suspected murder-suicide has left six members of one family dead in suburban Dallas, after two brothers made a pact to kill their relatives and then themselves.
One of the brothers, aged 19, detailed the deadly plan in a rambling six-page suicide note that was posted online, in which he talked at length about his years-long battle with depression and self-harm, expressed anger at the latter seasons of the TV sitcom The Office, and ranted about inadequate gun control in the US.
Officers with the Allen Police Department responded to a home in the 1500 block of Pine Bluff Drive at around 1am on Monday after receiving a call requesting a welfare check.
The call came from a friend who was concerned that someone at the home was suicidal, according to police talking to The Dallas Morning News.
Officers entered the residence and found six people dead from gunshot wounds, including two brothers, Farhan’s twin sister Farbin, their parents and a grandmother.
The family were immigrants from Bangladesh and the local police department had no prior interactions with them.
It is believed that the massacre was carried out by the two brothers, identified by a family friend as 19-year-old Farhan Towhid and 21-year-old Tanvir Towhid, as CBS DFW first reported.
‘Apparently two brothers made an agreement to commit suicide and ended up taking the entire family with them,’ said Allen police Sgt. Jon Felty.
The killing claimed the lives of Farhan’s twin sister Farbin Towhid, their parents Iren and Towhidul Islam, and a grandmother, 77-year-old Altafun Nessa.
She was visiting from Bangladesh, and was set to go return home next month.
Farbin was a talented artist, who had a full scholarship to New York University, FOX 4 reported.
The family members were likely killed sometime on Saturday, but they were not discovered until Monday morning.
Police confirmed that Farhan, formerly a computer science student at the University of Texas at Austin, linked his lengthy suicide letter from his Instagram.
The letter, which was published through Google Docs and reviewed by DailyMail.com, begins with the words: ‘Hey everyone. I killed myself and my family. If I’m going to die, I might as well get some attention.’
He goes on to say that he was diagnosed with depression in the ninth grade, and describes in graphic detail cutting himself with school scissors and knives, until he hit a ‘breaking point’ and told his father about his struggle.
