Wyoming murder-suicide

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So I'm sure some of you guys have heard about the guy that killed his dad/dad's girlfriend with a knife and bow and arrow before killing himself a few days ago. Apparently, the guy had Aspergers and blamed his dad for it, so sad...
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/02 ... g-college/

I wonder if he had any other psychiatric illness?Why would he blame his dad?Maybe some disorder that would make him paranoid.

Very sad news. I'm surprised I didn't hear about this till now. Tragic.

Uh... Aspie pride...?

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Aspergers wasn't the root issue there. Depression is and he was making a scapegoat out of Aspergers and not dealing with his problems. I have my doubts he was on anything, at least during the crimes, since his motor coordination seemed good.

I live in Laramie and a lot of my friends are here from Casper for school including both of my exes, so yeah was all over the news. First I heard about him being an Aspie, though. Still, little s**t needed to learn that it's not the reason for his problems, and that he could have lived life if he wanted to. No, instead he had to blame it all on his parents and his label, not himself, and now we've got yet another tragic occurrence that makes the rest of us look bad.

I have zero sympathy for him, all I care about is the mess he's made. How do you think people who know I'm an Aspie will treat me once they hear this?

This is a more informative article:-

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Aunt+ ... story.html

"CHEYENNE, Wyo. - A man who killed his father in front of a computer science class at a community college was a "borderline genius" upset by the belief he had inherited Asperger's Syndrome from his dad, an aunt of the killer said Monday.

Christopher Krumm, 25, blamed Asperger's for his trouble keeping jobs after he got a master's degree in electrical engineering from Colorado School of Mines in 2009, said Barbara Nichols, of Bakersfield, California.

"Nice to be around. Never caused any trouble of any kind," said Nichols, who'd briefly lived with her sister's family in Casper in the early 1990s.

Asperger's is a mild form of autism. Asperger's is associated with difficulty making social connections but is not normally associated with predilection to violent behaviour.

Krumm seemed normal to relatives as recently as three years ago, but then had a falling-out with his father. An uncle, Jon Sims, of Cheyenne, said he tried several times in recent years to reach his nephew by email, without success.

"As far as I know, he lived alone and had some social skill problems," Sims said.

Sims and Nichols both said they didn't know of any official diagnosis of Asperger's, but that Krumm may have diagnosed himself. Nichols said James Krumm told her that his son blamed him for Asperger's.

"He said 'He hates me. He blames me for this Asperger's,' " she said."



Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Aunt+ ... z2EN9S6T9M

Well, perhaps I'm being too hard on him, but I'm right down the road and a good portion of the people living in Laramie are students whose permanent residences are elsewhere in the state. I'm having issues right now with people thinking I'm psychotic or some s**t, there were a few minor incidents involving the Anime Club here on campus, some of that was due to my issues with anger management but at the same time I'm nowhere close to the kind of person who would pull a stunt like this. Still, once they hear this kid was autistic it's not going to help my case at all.

I merely hope Kyuuchan doesn't think less of me for this. She's from Casper and has probably met the victims once or twice, and while she does take issue with my anger management problems, she still trusts me and is always willing to give me advice. She is one of the few people who can see me for whom I truly am, a socially-challenged and quick-tempered but kind-hearted person, who just needs a little help getting on his feet, and I don't want this to change her opinion of me.

She's GM'ing our last World of Darkness game this semester tomorrow, so I will probably try and ask her about it then. I should be able to convince her that predilection for violence isn't necessarily a common Aspie trait. Even if it were, I know she knows I would rather put a gun to my own head and pull the trigger than do anything to hurt her.