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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 12 sepTember 2017

New graduate accused of killing 4 described as kind musician

By ALANNA RICHER cer, 52, told The Associated
Associated Press Press that Krause showed
BOSTON (AP) — A recent up at his back door that
college graduate ac- evening, naked and mud-
cused of killing his mother, dy, and calmly told him he
grandparents and a care- “just murdered four peo-
giver was described Mon- ple.”
day as a good friend and Alcocer said Krause’s eyes
talented jazz musician who were “very red” and he
showed no signs that he had cuts on his body and
was troubled. blood above his eye and
Orion Krause, who was knee but was unarmed
charged in the slayings, and seemed vulnerable.
was ordered Monday to be Ryan said at some point Fri-
sent to Bridgewater State day afternoon, Krause also
Hospital pending a com- called a person he knew
petency hearing. After the and made “concerning”
killings Friday, a neighbor statements, but she de-
said the 22-year-old Ober- clined to elaborate.
lin College graduate from Nancy Rowe, the band di-
Rockport, Maine, showed rector where Krause went
up naked and muddy at to high school, said he was
his home in Groton, a town a wonderful student who
about 40 miles (65 kilome- Orion Krause right, stands with his attorney Edward Wayland at Krause’s arraignment in Ayer had a “twinkle in his eye”
ters) northwest of Boston, District Court in Ayer, Mass., Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. Krause, of Rockport, Maine, was ordered and was always eager to
and said he “just murdered held without bail at Bridgewater State Hospital pending a competency hearing at his arraignment learn. He excelled in music,
four people.” on murder charges Monday in Ayer. particularly the jazz drum,
A longtime friend of (Josh Reynolds/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool) Rowe said.
Krause’s said he was old Frank Lackey III and She did not disclose a pos- and called police, Ryan Krause’s father would help
shocked, calling him a 68-year-old Bertha Mae sible motive in the killings. said. Krause contacted chaperone trips with the
great student and phe- Parker appeared to have Oberlin College & Conser- his mother Friday morn- jazz band at Camden Hills
nomenal musician who died of blunt force trauma. vatory, a liberal arts college ing and told her he was in Regional High School and
was well-liked by every- Parker was a home health in Ohio with a prestigious the Boston area and later both his parents were very
one. Wolfgang Boegel said care provider for the Lack- music program, said Orion asked her for a ride back to supportive of his musical
he played basketball with eys, Ryan said. Parker’s sis- Krause was a 2017 gradu- Maine, Ryan said. endeavors, Rowe said.
Krause just two weeks ago ter told The Boston Globe ate of the school’s conser- After his mother picked him “I just can’t make sense of
and everything seemed that she grew up in a family vatory. up, they visited his grand- any of it,” Rowe said.
normal. of 11 children in Louisiana. Krause abruptly left his parents at their home in “The Orion Krause that I
“This is the most devastat- Ryan said a baseball bat Rockport home Thursday Groton, Ryan said. There, knew here at Camden Hills
ing news I’ve ever heard in was found at the scene evening and his mother be- he attacked the four adults, would never have done
my entire life,” said Boegel, and “may have been came concerned “about Ryan said. something like that he is be-
22, who now lives in Port- used” in the attack. where he might be going” Neighbor Wagner Alco- ing accused (of).” q
land, Maine. “I was in com-
plete disbelief. I didn’t think
it was real at first.” Jury picked to decide competency in stabbing case
Krause’s attorney didn’t
immediately respond to a WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A Slender Man. Twelve jurors guilty due to mental illness er. Several jurors were dis-
phone message left Mon- jury has been selected in and four were selected in a stabbing that took missed because they said
day. southeastern Wisconsin to Monday in the case of the life of classmate Pay- they don’t believe in the
Middlesex District Attorney decide the mental com- 15-year-old Anissa Wei- ton Leutner (LYT’-nur) at a insanity plea. A plea deal
Marian Ryan told report- petency of a girl accused er (ah-NEE’-sah WY’-ur). Waukesha park when the calls for Weier to be com-
ers that 60-year-old Eliza- of stabbing a classmate in Opening statements are girls were 12. A second mitted to a mental hospital
beth Krause, 85-year-old 2014 to please a fictional scheduled Tuesday. classmate, Morgan Geyser for three years if she’s found
Elizabeth Lackey, 89-year- horror character known as Weier has pleaded not (GY’-zur), will go on trial lat- to have been mentally ill.q