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It appears that a man possibly involved in a triple homicide in Rosedale, B.C., has confessed online to murdering his wife, sister and daughter before killing himself by setting the family home on fire Thursday.

Police haven’t yet confirmed the nature of the fire, but The Province has learned that Randy Janzen, who appears to be a resident of a home that exploded on Llanberis Way, wrote a disturbing confession on his personal Facebook page before shooting his family.

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The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has since taken over the investigation of the blaze.

While the details are yet to be confirmed, RCMP Insp. Davis Wendell told Global they’re investigating a “very serious police incident which has resulted in the deployment of several specialized units.”

Neighbours, who say a family of three lives in the home, reported hearing gunshots, “followed by a loud bang” around 7 p.m. Thursday, and soon saw what they described as a SWAT team descending on the house.

The fire broke out after an explosion in a home during a police standoff Thursday afternoon on Llanderis Way in Rosedale, east of Chilliwack.

R & L Janzen are listed as residents of 10003 Llanberis Way in Rosedale.

In Randy Janzen’s chilling confession (below), he claims to have shot his daughter Emily because of the excruciating migraines she suffered and “the severe depression that these migraines caused her.”

He then claims to have shot his wife Laurel, so she wouldn’t have to hear the news of Emily’s death, and his sister Shelly, so she wouldn’t have to live with the shame he’d caused.

“Now my family is pain free and in heaven,” he wrote.

“I have great remorse for my actions and feel like the dirt that I am. I am taking full responsibility for my actions of these murders.”

The Chilliwack School of Performing Arts posted a tribute to Emily Janzen on its Facebook page Friday morning.