Kelsey Annese, Matthew Hutchinson and Colin Kingston found dead in SUNY house
A 'distraught' ex-boyfriend of a SUNY student stabbed her and her male roommate after he showed up at their house and found them in bed together before killing himself, police have revealed.
Talented sportswoman Kelsey Annese, 21 and volunteer firefighter Matthew Hutchinson, 24, were killed by Colin Kingston, 24, in a house near the college's Geneseo campus on Sunday.
Police found their bodies after they got a call from the worried father of the killer, who said his son had confessed to killing the couple, who had reportedly just started dating, over the phone.
Kingston had dated female basketball team captain Annese for about three years before they recently split up, police said.
He arrived at her home near to the Geneseo campus on Sunday 'very upset' about the break-up, and ended up fatally stabbing her and Hutchinson before calling his father to confess and then killing himself.
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Kelsey Annese (left) was captain of the women's university basketball team and dated former SUNY student Colin Kingston, 24, (pictured) for three years before recently splitting. He confessed the double murder to his father before killing himself at the near-campus property approximately 35 miles south of Rochester
Teammates paid tribute to Kelsey Annese and said she was someone that 'everyone loved'. Matthew Hutchinson (right), 24, of Vancouver, British Columbia (right), shared the near-campus home with Annese and was also found stabbed to death
Kelsey, on the far left, was captain of her college basketball team and much-loved by friends and teachers. 'She was an extremely hard-working, dedicated and a sweet girl that could put a smile on anyone's face', teammate Kara Houppert said
Kingston had dated female basketball team captain Annese (pictured) for about three years before they recently split up. She was believed to have just started a relationship with Hutchinson
Sources told the New York Post that Kingston let himself in through the back door and found them asleep in the bedroom. Cops said their deaths were quick.
Police said that Kingston had admitted having suicidal thoughts following the recent break-up, but no one they interviewed had heard him talk of threatening violence.
A large knife, which Kingston purchased at a store nearby, was recovered from the home situated approximately 35 miles south of Rochester, at 6am on Sunday.
Video courtesy of WIVB.com
According to Buffalo News, an audio recording from the call dispatching police to the house said a man phoned in saying 'his son called from an unknown number and stated that he murdered his girlfriend... and he's also going to kill himself.'
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ShareGeneseo Police Public Information Officer Jeffrey Szczesniak said it was 'too early in our investigation to label this a murder-suicide' but added: 'We believe the perpetrator is one of the deceased.'
He would not identify who called police.
'Certainly part of our investigation is to backtrack the events and whereabouts of each individual, and that is an ongoing process at this time,' he added.
Annese, from Webster, New York, usually played only four or five minutes a game for her basketball team but for this season, her final one, ninth-year coach Scott Hemer made Annese a team captain.
It was a reward for the example she set and the way the 2012 Webster Schroeder High School graduate encouraged teammates no matter how many minutes she played.
'She was an extremely hard-working, dedicated and a sweet girl that could put a smile on anyone's face', teammate Kara Houppert said. 'She always did that for me'.
She wore the number 32 because it is the same number her father wore when he played for Geneseo, according to a bio on the college's website.
Hutchinson was a player on the men's hockey team after taking up the sport at age 9.
He had volunteered for more than three years at the Geneseo Fire Department, making a point to take every training opportunity despite his packed schedule as a student athlete, said fire chief Andrew Chanler.
A photo of Matthew Hutchinson appears on a Christmas card he was given by members of the Geneseo Fire Department, where he served as a volunteer firefighter
His gear is seen in the space he was given at the station. He also put out wildfires in Canada
The bodies were found in a home close to the SUNY Geneseo campus (above), around 35 miles south of Rochester, at 6am on Sunday
Robert A. Bonfiglio, vice president of State University of New York (SUNY) - Geneseo, and Denise A. Battles, SUNY Geneseo president, sit at a press conference concerning the brutal deaths
'Matt did everything at the highest level', Chanler said.
'He put effort into these things like nobody else." Chanler said Hutchinson wanted to be a professional firefighter after college and had worked last summer as a forest firefighter back home in British Columbia'.
The deaths were discovered two days before the start of Geneseo's spring semester. The college postponed the men's and women's basketball games scheduled for Tuesday and were making counselors available to students and faculty.
Kingston, 24, was a Geneseo resident who had previously attended the college but never graduated. He was from a prominent Geneseo family and was working as a sales associate at GNC, a nutritional store, and also as a farmhand at his family’s farm.
The original Kingston farm dates back to 1840. His grandfather was the late Walter Kingston, who served on the Geneseo Central School Board and later as supervisor of the town of Geneseo.
He had spell as chairman of the Livingston County Board of Supervisors in the 1990s.
A former school board member and family friend Bob McDonald, said: 'They are just the backbone of Geneseo'.
Andrew W. Chanler, Geneseo Fire Chief (right) pauses while talking about the Matthew Hutchinson, a volunteer at the fire house during the briefing
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