An upstate college basketball player and her boyfriend, who plays on the hockey team, were slaughtered by the young woman’s ex-lover when he found them in bed together at an off-campus home near SUNY Geneseo, authorities said on Monday.
Colin Kingston bought a “large knife” at a nearby store and arrived at the rented home of Kelsey Annese, 21, some time between 5:30 a.m. and 6:21 a.m. Sunday, Geneseo Police spokesman Jeffrey Szczesniak said Monday.
Kingtson, 24, let himself in through the back door and found Annese and Matthew Hutchinson, 24, in an upstairs bedroom and murdered them “quickly,” cops said. There were no signs of a struggle and the victims may have been sleeping, he said.
Kingston and Annese had been together for more than three years, and he took their recent breakup badly.
“We believe that this is a situation where Mr. Kingston and Ms. Annese had been in a long relationship and recently had broken up. We believe Mr. Kingston was distraught over the breakup which led up to the events of yesterday Szczensiak said.
After killing the pair, the maniac called his father Daniel Kingston at 6:21 a.m.
A police dispatcher told an officer that the elder Kingston said “his son called from an unknown number and stated that he murdered his girlfriend… and he’s also going to kill himself,” the Buffalo News reported.
Kingston, cops added, had been making suicidal statements in recent days but had not threatened Annese.
Annese, of the Rochester suburb Webster, played varsity hoops for the school while Hutchinson, of Vancouver in British Columbia, played on the hockey team and was also a volunteer firefighter in Geneseo Friends and teammates took to Facebook to mourn.
“This has been a real bad 24 hours for Ron Annese my boyfriend, he has lost his heart and soul, Kelsey his daughter,” wrote Nancy Paller, Kelsey’s father’s girlfriend.
“Nothing I want to say can bring her back, but I want to say a lot to the a–hole that took her life, such a piece of sh-t.”
Teammate Taylor Blackwell loved taking the court with Kelsey.
“Kelsey was one of the most selfless teammates I’ve ever had the honor to play with. Basketball was always fun with her, and she was even more fun to watch, no matter how many times I fell for her pass fakes,” she wrote.
The bloodbath rocked the campus and community just as students were returning from winter break.
Kingston had attended the college before but was not registered for the spring semester.
He came from a prominent local family, and worked at a vitamin store and the family farm, which dates back to 1840.
SUNY Geneseo president Denise Battles extended her condolences to the victims’ families.
“It’s a profoundly sad day for all of us at SUNY Geneseo and the village as we begin to mourn these heartbreaking deaths,” she said.
Village Mayor Dick Hatheway said it was the first murder in Geneseo in his 30 years as mayor.