Two adults and six children were found dead on Oct. 27 inside a burning home in the Tulsa suburb of Broken Arrow. Local police on Sunday identified the parents as Brian Nelson, 34, and Brittney Nelson, 32, but did not say whether either adult was involved in the killing of their children, ages 1 to 13. Brian Nelson’s parents, Danny and Marilyn, told the Tulsa World that their son had asked if they could come over at 3 p.m. Thursday to babysit their grandchildren. This photo shared by family shows five of the six children killed in Thursday’s murder-suicide in Oklahoma. They are named as (L to R): Brian Nelson II, Kurgan, Ragnar, Brantley and Vegeta. The grandparents asked their son to bring the children to their home 5 miles away, which Brian agreed to do at 5 p.m. “Five came and went. Then it was 6. I texted them – no response,” Danny Nelson said. “I turned on the 6 o’clock news and they said there was a fire near Hickory and Galveston in Broken Arrow. My son lives there.” Police have not released the names of the children who died, but the Nelsons identified them as grandson Brian II, age 13. granddaughter Brantley, 9; Grandsons Vegeta, 7, Ragnar, 5, and Kurgan, 2, and granddaughter Britannica, 1. The grandparents said the younger children were named after some of their son’s favorite TV characters. The children were found dead in a back room inside their family’s home in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, after a fire last Thursday. AP All six children were found dead in a burning bedroom, while the two adults were found in the front of the home on South Hickory Avenue. Authorities said the cause of death is still pending, but they do not believe anyone died in the fire. Brian and Brittney Nelson had filed for bankruptcy in 2020, reporting assets of $8,803 against nearly $138,000 in debt, most of which was unpaid student loans, the newspaper reported. Both reported being unemployed at the time and living on federal and state benefits, the affidavit said. The bankruptcy also listed nine guns as assets. Marilyn Nelson recalled that her son always had a handgun in his pocket, which she said he had a permit for. Brian Nelson’s parents also told the newspaper that he had suffered a severe concussion several years ago while stocking dairy coolers at a major retail chain and had been plagued by debilitating headaches ever since. “I want people to know that at one point he had his wits about him,” Marilyn Nelson said. “I just don’t understand why they did what they did. I just don’t understand why he found himself in this situation. I talk to God all the time — and I just don’t understand.” Both parents were named “prime suspects” in the murder-suicide after their bodies were found in the front of the house. APO officials do not believe any of the eight people died in the fire reported Thursday at the home on South Hickory Avenue. AP Speaking about Brittney Nelson, Brian’s parents said she was stressed by caring for six children, including homeschooling, and was struggling with her own health issues. The couple were high school sweethearts who welcomed their first child shortly after graduation and married in 2008. Brian previously aspired to be an actor and spent his time taking college classes instead of holding down a full-time job while his wife was a homemaker. “I think the stress was what got to them,” Danny Nelson said, “trying to figure out how to go from month to month to month to month.”
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