GENESEO, N.Y. (AP) – A pair of college athletes – a hockey player and a captain on the women’s basketball team – are among the three young people found dead in a house next to a western New York campus.
Police said they planned to release additional details in their investigation into the deaths later Monday. Investigators have said they believe the perpetrator is among the dead.
The bodies discovered Sunday morning near the State University of New York at Geneseo were identified as 21-year-old Kelsey Annese, of Webster, New York; 24-year-old Matthew Hutchinson, of Vancouver, British Columbia; and 24-year-old Colin Kingston, of Geneseo.
Annese and Hutchinson were enrolled at the school and Kingston was a former student, police said.
Annese wore the number 32 because it is the same number her father wore when he played for Geneseo, according to a bio on the college’s website.
Hutchinson took up hockey at age 9 and played defense for the Geneseo Knights, according to his athlete bio. He had volunteered for more than three years at the Geneseo Fire Department, making a point to take every training opportunity despite his packed schedule as a student athlete, said fire chief Andrew Chanler.
“Matt did everything at the highest level,” Chanler said. “He put effort into these things like nobody else.”
Chanler said Hutchinson wanted to be a professional firefighter after college and had worked last summer as a forest firefighter back home in British Columbia.
Chanler said Kingston, the former student, came from a “very nice” local family.
Police said no firearm was used, but a knife was recovered.
The deaths were discovered two days before the start of Geneseo’s spring semester. The college postponed the men’s and women’s basketball games scheduled for Tuesday and were making counselors available to students and faculty.