Christopher McKinney allegedly stabbed his mom and stepfather – killing his stepdad – after being requested to cease enjoying video video games so they might sleep (Image: Oakland County Sheriff’s Workplace)
A 29 year-old gamer stabbed his mom and killed his stepdad after being requested to cease enjoying video video games so they might sleep. Christopher McKinney is claimed to have flown right into a violent rage household’s house in Madison Heights, Michigan, on Friday after being requested to cease enjoying video games within the couple’s room.
McKinney is accused of punching his mom on the nostril – breaking it – earlier than hitting his stepdad a number of instances. His stepdad is then mentioned to have grabbed a knife from the kitchen to defend himself, just for McKinney to take the blade off the aged man and start stabbing him with it.
McKinney stabbed his mom too, in keeping with police. The couple, who haven’t been named, have been rushed to hospital, the place the stepdad later succumbed to his accidents.
Madison Heights Police Chief Corey Haines mentioned the household’s subsequent door neighbor obtained a knock from a bloodied McKinney afterwards asking to be let in.
Haines informed ClickOnDetroit: ‘He was laying down within the hallway and he had blood throughout him. There was blood in all places — everywhere in the partitions, the ceilings, the hallway.’
McKinney is claimed to have spat on one police officer who tried to arrest him, and is additional accused of attacking a paramedic who was attempting to manage first support.
He’s additionally mentioned to have exclaimed that jurors at his trial would consider his denial ‘as a result of I’m white.’
Haines mentioned: ‘It’s so much for the officers to tackle. Add the pandemic on prime of that, you don’t need another person’s blood on you as a lot as they don’t need yours on them. Right here, it’s in all places.’
McKinney, who was beforehand charged with assaulting his mother and stepdad, now faces fees together with homicide, tried homicide and assault.
He’s being held in jail in lieu of $510,000 bail forward of his subsequent courtroom look.
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