Students mourned after 3 killed near NY campus

Police say 24-year-old Colin Kingston used a knife to kill his ex-girlfriend, 21-year-old Kelsey Annese and 24-year-old Matthew Hutchinson.

In a recording of police scanner dispatches, released online in the aftermath of the discovery of the three individuals, a Livingston County Emergency 911 dispatcher can be heard relaying information from the caller, who she identified as Dan Kingston, the father of 24-year-old Colin Kingston, who was found dead at scene along with Kelsey Annese, 21, and Matt Hutchinson, 24.

Kingston appeared to have purchased a large knife at a local retailer and brought it with him to the home, Szczesniak said.

A bitter ex-boyfriend stabbed two NY college students to death before killing himself, police said Monday.

The anxious father told the dispatcher that Kingston said he had killed his girlfriend and was going to kill himself, according to US media outlets. Police said Annese and Hutchinson were students at Geneseo and Kingston was a former student.

Hutchinson was in his senior year of college at SUNY.

“We think our students will be comforted by keeping as much stability in their life as possible, even during a hard period of mourning”, said Battles. “I can’t imagine as a parent losing a child who had so many accomplishments already and only had more to gain”, he said.

It is not known what relationship Hutchinson had with the former couple.

Matthew Hutchinson, pictured above, was a student hockey player from Vancouver studying at State University of NY in Geneseo.

“We believe Mr. Kingston was distraught over the breakup which led up to the events of (Sunday)”, said Geneseo police spokesman Jeff Szczesniak.

He said about half the people in the town of 8,000 people are students. Her coach, Scott Hemer, said the senior education major was selfless, and “a grinder” with a work ethic respected by her coaches and teammates.“Kelsey will always be one of my all-time favorite players not because of anything she will have her name next to in the record book, but because of the type of person she was, ” Hemer said.

Battles called it a “profoundly sad” day on campus – and says they are planning a remembrance ceremony on Wednesday night. “We take pride in that it’s not a very crime-ridden community”. He was also a member of the Geneseo volunteer fire department, the school said.

Annese wore the number 32 on the basketball court because it is the same number her father wore when he played for Geneseo, according to a bio on the college’s website.

Hemer adds, “I don’t know if there’s an easy answer for what’s being said. He put effort into these things like nobody else”, said fire chief Andrew Chanler.