Connor Crumrine in booking photo.Photo:Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office
Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office
The young woman allegedly heard her mother’s screams as she called a behavioral health center to get her brother placed in the facility’s care.
“He’s stabbing me,” Jennifer Crumrine cried. “He’s stabbing me.”
The Florida family’s plans to leave for a cruise the day after Christmas had been disrupted when Connor allegedly began threatening them Christmas night.
“Connor began making statements to the family trying to teach them how to get into a fetal position and making statements about heaven and hell,” Nicholas Wrasse of the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit wrote in the affidavit, adding that Connor made “a finger gun gesture towards them.”
His sister, Savannah Crumrine, 25, later told police that Connor told her “to sleep face down tonight so that he can take her to heaven and keep her from going to hell,” according to the investigator’s paraphrase of the exchange.
The mother and two sisters had slept in shifts with their bedroom doors locked, Connor’s sisters later told police. The next morning, the mother told Kasey that she was skipping the family cruise so that she could get Connor placed at Charlotte Behavioral Health Care for mental health help, per the affidavit.
But when Jennifer relayed the change of plans to her son, Connor “started procrastinating getting ready,” per the affidavit.
Jennifer told her daughter Kasey to call the center for help, and while Kasey was on the phone, Connor allegedly began stabbing their mother, per the affidavit. Kasey got off the phone with the center and went for Connor’s knife, and was cut across the finger as she tried to disarm her brother.
Seeing the commotion, Savannah “then tackled Connor and began actively wrestling with him for control over the knife during which time Kasey attempted to provide lifesaving efforts to Jennifer” and called 911, the affidavit states.
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When the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office Road Patrol Unit responded just after 7:15 a.m. on Dec. 26, they found Jennifer bleeding from a gaping neck wound. Meanwhile, Connor was holding a knife and “on top of his sister, Savannah, in his bedroom, with the two actively engaged in a struggle,” per the affidavit, which noted that he “was not actively using” the knife “at the time.”
After Connor allegedly ignored “multiple commands” from sheriff’s deputies, they tased and detained him, the affidavit states.
Jennifer, 54, was taken to Fawcett Memorial Hospital with life-threatening injuries and ultimately died. Kasey was treated there for her minor hand laceration.
Savannah, who had been stabbed in her upper back and other minor cuts to her hands and arms, was transported to Gulf Coast Medical Center for treatment, and Connor was taken to Shore Point Health of Port Charlotte, for a minor hand laceration of his own.
Connor is charged with three counts of aggravated battery with the use of a deadly weapon and one count of resisting an officer without violence, according to his online arrest and court records.
Connor has not been charged in connection with his mother’s death, the clerk’s office at the Charlotte County Justice Center confirms to PEOPLE. Connor has not yet pleaded to the charges, per the clerk’s office, and he has not been assigned a lawyer.
At Connor’s first court appearance Dec. 27, his bond was set to $710,000, per the clerk’s office, and as conditions for any release, he was ordered to have no contact with his sisters and no firearms or weapons in his possession.
Connor’s arraignment is set for Jan. 29.
source: people.com
