{
  "id": "2016-01-17-suny-geneseo-annese-hutchinson-double-homicide",
  "slug": "suny-geneseo-annese-hutchinson-double-homicide-2016-01-17",
  "institution": {
    "name": "State University of New York at Geneseo",
    "shortName": "SUNY Geneseo",
    "state": "NY",
    "type": "public-bachelors",
    "alertSystemName": "Geneseo Alert",
    "enrollment": 5300
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2016-01-17",
    "type": "dating-violence",
    "cleryCategory": "advisory",
    "headline": "A Knife Bought Days Before: An Ex-Boyfriend Kills Two SUNY Geneseo Athletes and Himself on Wadsworth Street",
    "summary": "SUNY Geneseo senior [Kelsey Annese, 21, and men's hockey player Matthew Hutchinson, 24, were fatally stabbed](https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/14598804/suny-geneseo-athletes-kelsey-annese-matthew-hutchinson-stabbed-death) inside Annese's off-campus apartment on Wadsworth Street in the village of Geneseo early on January 17, 2016. Police [identified the attacker as Annese's ex-boyfriend, 24-year-old Colin Kingston](https://www.cnn.com/2016/01/18/us/college-double-murder-suicide/index.html), who had recently broken up with her after a three-year relationship, bought a large knife days earlier, and took his own life after calling his father to say he had 'harmed his girlfriend.'",
    "resolution": "confirmed-threat",
    "outcome": "Kelsey Annese and Matthew Hutchinson were pronounced dead at the Wadsworth Street residence. Colin Kingston, the attacker, was found dead at the scene of an apparent self-inflicted wound; investigators concluded he acted alone and that the case was closed as a murder-suicide with no continuing threat to campus.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 2,
      "injured": 0
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "follow-up",
      "timestampApprox": "Evening of Wednesday, January 20, 2016, at a campus remembrance ceremony",
      "channel": "website",
      "verbatimText": "I stand before you today with a broken heart, a sentiment I know that you and all of Geneseo feel deeply and profoundly at the loss of two truly memorable people.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://spectrumlocalnews.com/us/snplus/news/2016/01/20/remembrance-event-at-geneseo-after-double-murder-suicide-",
      "sourceDescription": "Remarks by SUNY Geneseo President Denise Battles at a campus remembrance ceremony, quoted by Spectrum News",
      "annotations": [
        "This was a spoken remembrance-ceremony address, not a live Geneseo Alert emergency text: the killings happened at a private, off-campus apartment and were discovered after the fact, so the college's public-facing response centered on grief support rather than an active-threat notification",
        "President Battles, who had taken office only six months earlier in July 2015, delivered these remarks at a vigil three days after the killings, addressing both Annese's and Hutchinson's athletic teams and the wider student body",
        "The statement deliberately avoids naming Kingston or describing the relationship history, a pattern common to institutional statements about intimate-partner-violence deaths of enrolled students"
      ],
      "characterCount": 162
    }
  ],
  "context": "Colin Kingston, 24, of Geneseo, entered the Wadsworth Street apartment where his ex-girlfriend Kelsey Annese, a 21-year-old senior on the [SUNY Geneseo women's basketball team](https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/14598804/suny-geneseo-athletes-kelsey-annese-matthew-hutchinson-stabbed-death), was living, around 6 a.m. on January 17, 2016. Kingston, who according to [police had bought a large knife days earlier](https://13wham.com/news/top-stories/geneseo-pd-update-wadsworth-street-investigation), found Annese with Matthew Hutchinson, a 24-year-old member of the men's ice hockey team and a Geneseo Fire Department firefighter/EMT, and stabbed both of them to death in Annese's bedroom. Kingston and Annese had recently ended a three-year relationship. Investigators say [Kingston called his father](https://www.cnn.com/2016/01/18/us/college-double-murder-suicide/index.html) to say he had harmed his girlfriend before apparently taking his own life; his body was found at the scene alongside Annese's and Hutchinson's. The village of Geneseo and the SUNY Geneseo campus, a close-knit school of roughly 5,300 students, held a remembrance ceremony three days later where [President Denise Battles addressed grieving students and teammates](https://spectrumlocalnews.com/us/snplus/news/2016/01/20/remembrance-event-at-geneseo-after-double-murder-suicide-). The case remains one of the best-documented campus dating-violence double homicides of the decade, drawing national coverage from CNN and ESPN because both victims were varsity student-athletes.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "The attacker purchased the murder weapon in the days before the killings, a documented planning interval that distinguishes this case from an impulsive confrontation",
    "The killings occurred at an off-campus apartment, so SUNY Geneseo's public response was a remembrance-ceremony address rather than a live emergency alert to the wider campus",
    "Both primary victims were varsity student-athletes (women's basketball and men's ice hockey), which drove sustained national sports-media coverage of an intimate-partner-violence case",
    "The perpetrator is not counted among the case's reported fatalities per this archive's convention of excluding perpetrators from casualty counts"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "SUNY Geneseo athletes Kelsey Annese, Matthew Hutchinson killed (ESPN)",
      "url": "https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/14598804/suny-geneseo-athletes-kelsey-annese-matthew-hutchinson-stabbed-death",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "3 die in murder-suicide at SUNY Geneseo, police say (CNN)",
      "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2016/01/18/us/college-double-murder-suicide/index.html",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Police: Break-up was motive in Geneseo double murder-suicide (13WHAM)",
      "url": "https://13wham.com/news/top-stories/geneseo-pd-update-wadsworth-street-investigation",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Remembrance Ceremony at SUNY Geneseo for Victims of Double Murder (Spectrum News)",
      "url": "https://spectrumlocalnews.com/us/snplus/news/2016/01/20/remembrance-event-at-geneseo-after-double-murder-suicide-",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Saturday marks ten years since murder of two SUNY Geneseo student athletes (WHEC)",
      "url": "https://www.whec.com/top-news/saturday-marks-ten-years-since-murder-of-two-suny-geneseo-student-athletes/",
      "type": "local-media"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "medium",
  "tags": [
    "dating-violence",
    "intimate-partner-violence",
    "murder-suicide",
    "off-campus",
    "new-york",
    "student-athletes",
    "geneseo"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-07-03",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-03",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}