Police say Nicholas D. Arruda, 39, shot and killed his pregnant wife, Danielle, 39, and their two young children. “My brother committed the most cowardly despicable act one could perpetrate,” Arruda’s brother said.

West Greenwich police announced they will be providing an update Wednesday morning after four people were found dead inside a home last week.

A West Greenwich family was killed as a result of a murder-suicide, the West Greenwich Police Department said on Wednesday.

A man shot and killed his pregnant wife and their two children before he killed himself, according to authorities.

WEST GREENWICH − A 39-year-old West Greenwich man last week shot and killed his pregnant wife and his two children and then died by suicide, police said Wednesday morning. Nicholas Arruda shot and killed 39-year-old Danielle Arruda, their 5-year-old daughter and their 2-year-old son, according to West Greenwich Police Chief Richard N. Ramsay.

Four bodies found in West Greenwich nearly a week ago were determined to be a murder-suicide, according to law enforcement.

According to West Greenwich police, Nicholas Arruda, 39, shot and killed Danielle Arruda, 39, Adele Arruda, 5, and Felix Arruda, 2, before turning the gun on himself. Danielle Arruda was seven months pregnant at the time of her death.