A man and his seven children were found dead after being poisoned by carbon monoxide from a generator they were using after a power company cut off their electricity.
Police discovered the bodies of 36-year-old Rodney Todd, his five daughters and two sons at their home in Princess Anne, Maryland.
Officers said the cause of the deaths was still under investigation, but the man's mother and stepfather said police told them the family died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Bonnie and Lloyd Edwards identified the children as sons Cameron, 13, and Zycheim, 7, and daughters Tynijuiza, 15, Tykira, 12, Tybree, 10, Tyania, 9, and Tybria, 6.
Mr Edwards said they had been left in a state of "disbelief" following the tragedy.
"It's so hard," he said.
"How can you understand something like that?"
He said Delmarva Power had cut off the family's electricity to the house because of an outstanding bill.
"To keep his seven children warm, (Mr Todd) bought a generator," Lloyd Edwards said.
"It went out and the carbon monoxide consumed them."
Princess Anne Police Chief Scott Keller said there was a generator in the kitchen that was out of fuel.
Matt Likovich, a spokesman for Delmarva Power, declined to say whether the power had been cut off and said the matter was being investigated.
Bonnie Edwards described her son as a loving, caring young man who set an example for his children.
"I don't know anyone his age who would have done what he did" for his children, she said.
"I was so proud to say he took care of seven kids."
Mr Todd was a utility worker at the nearby University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
His supervisor, Stephanie Wells, said she had not seen Mr Todd since 28 March.
She said she reported him missing after no one answered when she knocked on the door of the family's home on Monday.
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