<p>Very interesting comments to the linked article. Posters claiming to know the accused state that his father was very abusive to both him and his mother, that the accused had been arrested sometime last year for public intoxication (eerily similar to the UVA assailant), and that he attacked and incapacitated her roommate as well.</p>
<p>One poster who claimed to know Clayton asserts that he had a sealed court history which involved a very serious crime when he was an adolescent. </p>
<p>Clearly we are going to learn more and more about this young man and his history of anger/abuse/history of athletic achievement which ultimately led to nowhere and disappointment. </p>
<p>Very tragic story which will probably get a lot of traction in the media.</p>
<p>The young man charged with the murder went to the same high school as the deceased. They were a couple before she enrolled in college. He was a student at Utica; she attended SUNY Brockport. According to the news reports, she signed him into the dorm. There is no evidence that anyone at Brockport had any knowledge that he had been violent in the past. To me at least, UVa was a very different situation. Huguely was also a student at UVa. There the coach and other team members knew about Huguely’s temper and had witnessed him grabbing Love by the throat, etc. He’d also attacked a team mate while that mate was sleeping because Huguely had seen him with Love. </p>
<p>So far at least, there’s no reason to think there’s anything Brockport could have done to prevent the murder.</p>
<p>According to people commenting to an article I read, many knew that he was abusive to her and allegedly at least one other girl. Since she was a freshman at Brockport, it probably is true that no one there would have known about their history, and therefore would not have been responsible for anticipating problems relating to his presence at the dorm. </p>
<p>He was apparently 3 years older than the victim. Perhaps this difference in age contributed to her lacking the ability to permanently break things off with him, or contributed to her being easily swayed by possible promises to change. </p>
<p>As far as similarities to the UVA crime, that remains to be seen. Comments to a news article, even though posted by people who allegedly knew the couple, aren’t necessarily accurate. But there was quite a bit of talk of this kid being held up on a pedestal in high school do to his hockey prowess as well as a history of other problems which were not adequately addressed, which is somewhat similar to GH’s history. Unlike George, his aspirations of becoming a hockey star apparently went unfulfilled.</p>
<p>I’m sure more and more information will be forthcoming. You have a beautiful girl killed in her dorm room, possibly by her former athlete boyfriend. This is exactly the type of story picked up by news outlets.</p>
<p>Both families have experienced loss. I cannot imagine anything worse than losing a daughter in this manner. But finding out a son has been accused of something so heinous would be incredibly awful as well-worse would be finding out he had indeed perpetrated the act. Just a tragic story.</p>
<p>Two days before her death, she tweeted about how happy she was that he was coming to see her. </p>
<p>From what I read in various articles about the tragedy, her Mom contacted the school in the middle of the night because she couldn’t reach her daughter via cell phone. I believe campus security did a welfare check on her and found her deceased in her dorm room.</p>
<p>Whittemore was caught by police at about 4 a.m. at a state Thruway rest stop in DeWitt</p>
<p>^^^I’m thinking her Mom either knew of current or even past problems with this guy if she calls the police in the middle of the night because she can’t reach her daughter. If my daughter didn’t answer her cell in the middle of the night, I would assume it was because she was asleep. My next action would not be to call campus police.</p>
<p>Must have been a terrible, powerless feeling to be concerned about her daughter for some reason, yet unable to assure herself that she was okay. Then to be told that your worst fears had been realized.</p>
<p>Nr,I have the same suspicion. This is why my heart breaks for these parents even more. While not their fault, they will always blame themselves for not being able to prevent this. Not that they could but that’ll be there in the back of their minds. </p>
<p>So, so tragic. My heart is out to everyone who knew her.</p>
<p>My guess is that it was more than that. I mentioned Alex’s last tweet earlier in the thread. Maybe her mom saw it, or maybe Alex called or texted her? It seems unusual that a mom would be randomly trying to call her D in the middle of the night, without their being some particular concern or reason. The fact that the police apprehended the boyfriend so quickly, on his way back from Brockport, leads me to believe that the mom knew he was visiting and probably expressed concerns to the police.</p>
<p>Hockey is extremely popular in my state and I work with many people that play hockey. That said, the opportunity to hit people or engage in otherwise violent activities provides practice. The vast majority if people can partition the world of sport and the real world. A few have trouble with that.</p>
<p>Being out of contact with college students for a night, a few days, or a week or two shouldn’t be that much of a problem for new college students. If parents that couldn’t reach their kids called the RA everytime they couldn’t reach their kids, RAs wouldn’t have any time to do anything else.</p>
<p>BCEagle91…Lacrosse and football come to mind. (UVA murderer was a lacrosse player.)</p>
<p>Sounds like this horrible young man had many problems. My guess is that the sport he played four years ago in high school had not much to do with his current problems and past run-ins with the law.</p>
<p>I have a sister-in-law who has spent her entire career working with women who are victims of domestic violence. There is no demographic that is spared when it comes to violent men, and, despite what many may believe, men who participate in particular sports are no more likely to abuse their wives or girlfriends than the man who cycles on the weekend or the man who plays golf. Abusers come from every walk of life, from every level of education, and exist in every age group.</p>
<p>Can someone come up with the name of the last college track star that beat his girlfriend to death? There is violence and abuse, and then that relatively rare case of beating someone to death. If you want to kill someone, there are easier ways of doing that.</p>