Police identify family of 4 murdered in Duluth: Latest updates

DULUTH, Minn. (FOX 9) - Police have now identified the family killed in what investigators are now calling a murder-suicide in Duluth on Wednesday.Five people were found dead at a home in Duluth after police were called in for a welfare check.

Thursday, Duluth police identified the victims as: Police also identified the man suspected of shooting the victims as Brandon Taylor Cole-Skogstad, who police say was the nephew of Riana and Sean Barry.Speaking Thursday afternoon, Duluth Police Chief Mike Tusken explained how the homicide has been tough for everyone to comprehend, from members of the community to the officers investigating the case."You know, one of the things that, going through to the house, that our officers indicated – part of it that was really hard for them –  was that the walls all had photos of the family," explained the chief. "So it seems like a really tight family unit and makes this even more heartbreaking and tragic.""It's tough on all of us," added Chief Tusken. "It's tough on our cops.

You know, some of our police officers, a lot of them, they have families. And anytime you go into a situation like this and you see that tragedy, it is terribly heart-wrenching, and you can't unsee it.

So it's very difficult."Before taking his own life, Cole-Skogstad wrote a confession on Facebook, FOX 21 in Duluth reports.An immediate family member confirmed to FOX 21 in Duluth the 29-year-old man wrote about suffering from mental health illness for many years and how he "almost never sought out help because I felt I never deserved it.""I now make this post to say, I have made the absolutely horrid choice in not only taking my life, but the lives of my aunt, Riana Lou Barry, my uncle Sean Barry, and my two sweet,.