A MAN WHO police say killed his father, a woman and himself in Wyoming on Friday told a neighbour in Connecticut weeks before the killings that he believed his father gave him Asperger’s syndrome and said his dad should be “castrated” to prevent him from having more children.
Neighbor Matt DiPinto of Vernon, Connecticut, told local reporters that Christopher Krumm made the comments while giving him a ride home a few weeks ago.
“He’s like, ‘So my dad gave me Asperger’s … and my dad should have never had any kids. He should have never had me and passed it on to me, and the government shouldn’t have let him have kids,’” DiPinto said. “It was just out of nowhere … but he seemed pretty livid about it.”
Police in Casper, Wyoming, say Krumm shot an arrow into the head of his father, James Krumm, with a high-powered bow Friday while his father was teaching a computer science class at Casper College.
James Krumm, 56, managed to wrestle with his 25-year-old son and gave time for about six students to flee, an act police called heroic. Authorities say both men died after Christopher Krumm stabbed himself and then his father. Before the classroom attack, police say Christopher Krumm fatally stabbed his father’s live-in girlfriend, Heidi Arnold, 42, at the home she shared with James Krumm about two miles from campus.
The motive for the attack is not clear.
Neighbours say Christopher Krumm moved into the apartment building last summer and appeared to work in construction or for a utility, because he wore a neon safety vest. They say he was quiet and appeared to be anti-social.
“It’s so insane,” said Kim Warren, another of Christopher Krumm’s neighbours. “You never would have guessed he would have done something like that.”
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