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The lengthy note from Farhan Towhid, a 19-year-old Texan, went up on Instagram over the weekend, beginning with an alarming claim: “Hey everyone. I killed myself and my family.”

...police forced their way into the red brick house in Allen, Tex. Inside, they found six people dead: Farhan Towhid; his brother, Tanvir Towhid, 21; his father, Towhidul Islam, 54; his mother, Iren Islam, 56; his grandmother Altafun Nessa, 77; and his 19-year-old twin sister, Farbin Towhid.

They had all been shot to death, police said, by Farhan and Tanvir Towhid as part of a suicide pact the pair had planned out for over a month.

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According to Farhan’s note on Instagram, he and his brother Tanvir had struggled with mental illness for years...[they] decided to kill their family and then themselves...“Instead of having to deal with the aftermath of my suicide, I could just do them a favor and take them with me,” the note reads.

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The pair bought guns, he wrote, adding that “gun control in the U.S. is a joke” because the pair lied when asked if they were suffering from mental illness.

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Police in Maryland are "on scene responding to an active shooter" in the city of Frederick on Tuesday morning, according to a tweet from city police.