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Police later arrested the man.
He was taken to the Bexar County Adult Detention Center where he faces three counts of aggravated assault and one count of endangering a child.
His ex-wife and young daughter were in the car with him at the time of the shooting.
I'm Nicole Parton.
New information on a chilling case out of North Carolina.
Five search warrants in the case against Wellington Dickens III have shed new light on his actions after the murder of his four children.
And apparently he confessed.
After calling 911, the father said, I killed my children.
Take a listen.
The father went on to say that three of his children and his stepson were dead in the trunk of his car while his three-year-old son was inside the home alive.
It was on January 14 and 15 that new search warrants about the evidence collected at Dickens' home were filed.
These included requests for his computer and at least two iPhones that were discovered.
Police said those were forensically reviewed by detectives.
From that review, one of the new warrants filed seeks account access from one specific app, Grindr.
Grindr is described in the warrant as a dating casual sex app for gay and bisexual men.
According to the detective who applied for the warrant, Dickens had text exchanges with multiple people in which he was introducing himself as the person that they were just speaking with on Grindr.
These messages suggest they frequented the home during the time span of the murders when the murders were taking place and while his children were decaying in the trunk of his car.
The text also suggests, according to the warrant, that the people Dickens had connected with through the app were inside the home while those corpses were decomposing in his garage, then his trunk.
The search warrant, which was approved by the magistrate, will seek to further investigate Dickens' account, including any geolocation information, photos and videos that was sent using that app.
It is unclear what, if anything, has been turned over by Grindr in the case.