26-year-old Joshua Fowler of Grafton, NY was arrested final week by State Police for one depend of homicide within the first diploma, three counts of homicide within the second diploma and one depend of prison possession of a weapon within the second diploma.

In line with a press launch, dispatch obtained a 911 name from a girl who recognized herself as Whitney Fowler, Joshua’s spouse. She reported “an altercation” between her and her husband, requesting police help, earlier than dispatchers “heard what they believed to be gunshots.”

When authorities arrived on the scene, they discovered Joshua “exterior the house holding a protracted gun”; per police, he refused to place down the gun, earlier than a “transient standoff” with authorities, who then used tasers to take him into custody “unhurt.”

Whereas looking the property, authorities then discovered Whitney, 27, Joshua’s father, Wilson Fowler, 55, and his grandmother, Anita Crandall, 69, all deceased from gunshot wounds. Per police, an extra grownup lived on the residence, however wasn’t there on the time. That girl, in line with Joshua’s mom, was her sister — who can be Wilson’s spouse.

Joshua’s mom, Eleanor Crandall, spoke with CBS 6 Albany concerning the incident, explaining she lives out of state along with her spouse in Virginia.

“I instructed his father when he was 15 years previous, ‘That you must get him psychological assist as a result of he’ll kill any individual sometime,’” she instructed the outlet. “I hate him. And that is a really robust phrase in my vocabulary. I do not use that phrase until I’ve to.”

“A part of me needs I by no means had him. To me, my son died that evening, too,” she continued, following the demise of her mom, whereas including she’s making an attempt to lift funds to assist pay for the funerals. “I simply need assistance so I can see my mother. So I can bury her. And be there for my sister — she wants me now greater than ever.”

Whitney’s father, Wayne Lundgren, additionally spoke with WNYT about her demise, claiming she had lately reached out to him and stated, “I am leaving my husband.” He added, “She was going to examine herself into a house for a battered girl,” earlier than later indicating she was staying with him.

“She did not go into an excessive amount of element with me as a result of she knew that I used to be very protecting,” he added.

Eleanor echoed that account, saying Whitney “needed to depart and I do not blame her.”

“I instructed her again in January to depart him and she or he went again,” she added. “I instructed her, ‘Do not return, do not return, he’ll harm you.’”

Fowler is being held with out bail.