Ex-Boyfriend Suspected of Killing Two Students at SUNY Geneseo

The bodies discovered Sunday morning near the State University of New York at Geneseo were identified as 21-year-old Kelsey Annese, of Webster, New York; 24-year-old Matthew Hutchinson, of Vancouver, British Columbia; and 24-year-old Colin Kingston, of Geneseo.

GENESEO, N.Y. – A junior hockey team in Chilliwack, B.C., is remembering a former player who once dressed as Santa Claus for a gift exchange and is now among the victims in a murder-suicide that left three people dead in NY state.

A former student at a western NY college, distraught over a recent breakup, fatally stabbed his ex-girlfriend and another man before killing himself at an off-campus home, police said Monday.

In a Sunday afternoon press conference, Jeffrey Szczesniak, the Geneseo Police Department’s public information officer, said it was too early in the investigation to label a suspect and, when asked if the crime was being investigated as a double murder-suicide, declined to confirm specifics. When police arrived, they say all three victims were dead at the home. According to the school, Amnesia was also a student at SUNY, while Kingston was a former student.

After the attack, Kingston apparently called his father, who relayed the information to Geneseo police.

Hutchinson and Annese had both played in games on Saturday, hours before they were killed.

SUNY Geneseo President Denise Battles says, “It’s a profoundly sad day for all of us at SUNY Geneseo and in the village as we begin to mourn these heartbreaking deaths”.

Szczesniak said this amounts to a great tragedy in a community where everyone knows each other.

Her coach, Scott Hemer, said the senior education major was selfless, and “a grinder” with a work ethic respected by her coaches and teammates.

Investigators didn’t uncover any signs of a struggle at the scene, Szczesniak said.

Annese played basketball for Geneseo. She was an Education/Spanish major and a Psychology minor.

The couple may have been asleep when Kingston entered the woman’s room in a house where female basketball players lived.

The young man was in his fourth year at the school and was studying geography and business.

“I was pretty close to him”, Chanler said. He had received his EMT certification and had built strong relationships with other volunteers in the department, Chanler said.

Hutchinson was a senior defenseman on the hockey team.

The flag at College Circle has been lowered to half staff, a remembrance service is planned for 7 p.m. Wednesday, and classes for the spring semester will start Tuesday as scheduled. Hutchinson wrote an online commentary for the college about his desire to be a full-time firefighter, including a photo of him dressed in firefighting gear. “I don’t know where the course is going to take us but we definitely know where we’re going to go”.