A 53-year-old Kansas man fatally shot his wife and four young children before calling 911 to say he had killed his family and was preparing to take his own life, authorities said. The case is being investigated as an apparent murder-suicide.

Ronald Williams Sr. was identified as the suspect in a Kansas murder-suicide that killed his wife and four children before he fatally shot himself.

Authorities who responded to the home in Winfield, Kansas, found six people dead inside, including three girls and one boy between the ages of 3 and 9.