Obama calls for tougher knife controls after SUNY attack

GENESEO, N.Y. — President Obama renewed his call for stricter knife laws today after a 24-year-old man distraught over a recent breakup stabbed to death his ex-girlfriend and a fellow college athlete she was with in her off-campus bedroom before apparently killing himself with the same knife. "We don't have all the facts, but we do know that, once again, innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a knife," Obama said.

Obama's remarks were not unlike the many others he's given following a killing during his presidency. But this time, he said the usual condolences could not express "the heartache and the sadness and the anger we feel" about the knifing at SUNY. "Any death of this sort is a tragedy. Any knifing involving multiple victims is a tragedy. There is something particularly heartbreaking about the death happening in a place in which we seek learning, and we seek sports, in a place of higher education,"

A 24-year-old man distraught over a recent breakup stabbed to death his ex-girlfriend and a fellow college athlete she was with in her off-campus bedroom before apparently killing himself with the same knife, police said Monday.

Colin Kingston, of Geneseo, entered Kelsey Annese's apartment around 6 a.m. Sunday near the State University of New York at Geneseo in upstate New York, police officer Jeffrey Szczensiak told reporters Monday. Kingston, who brought a large knife he had recently purchased, found her with another student, Matthew Hutchinson, of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Kingston, a former student at the school, killed them both. It's possible that Annese, 21, and Hutchinson, 24, were sleeping when Kingston entered, but police were not sure. Kingston called his father before killing himself, Szczensiak said.