An upstate New York man has admitted to killing his wife, father, and grandmother in a vicious fit of gun-fueled domestic violence , according to law enforcement in the Empire State.

On Monday, Joshua Fowler, 26, pleaded guilty to three counts of murder in the second degree , according to Rensselaer County court records.

The underlying incident took the lives of the defendant's wife, Whitney Fowler, 27; his father, Wilson Fowler, 55; and his grandmother, Anita Crandall, 69, as Law&Crime previously reported .

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On June 18, at the family's shared residence on South Road in Cropseyville, law enforcement was already well aware of the trouble brewing by t

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