NC man ‘turns straight,’ murders gay roommate with ax and shotgun, blames Mucinex

rickolasnice

rickolasnice

Bluelighter
Joined
Apr 19, 2007
Messages
6,807
http://www.dallasvoice.com/nc-man-t...ommate-ax-shotgun-blames-mucinex-1065329.html

In one of the grisliest murders the local Catawba County Sheriff’s Department can recall, a teen roommate used the gay panic defense to justify his alleged ax-and-shotgun murder of an older gay man.

Michael Anderson, 19, of nearby King’s Mountain, is accused of murdering 38-year-old Stephen Starr at about 4:45 a.m. on Monday in the Hickory house they shared.

The Hickory Daily Record reports that Anderson, claiming he “turned straight” during alleged sexual advances by Starr, shot him with a shotgun and pistol, carved words into his body and wrote some others with a pen, before lodging an ax in the victim’s stomach.

“He shot his roommate and took an ax to him,” Catawba County Sheriff Coy Reid told the Daily Record. “It’s one of the nastiest crime scenes I’ve been to.”
Click to expand...

The phone call to 911:

Operator: Catawba County 911

Caller: Um. I’d like to report something

Operator: Ok. What’s wrong?

Caller: Um. I took some pills and um the pills made me go mad and um I murdered my roommate.

Operator: You murdered your roommate?

Caller: Yes

Operator: What do you mean you murdered your roommate?

Caller: I shot him three times and then I used an axe and mutilated his body.

Operator: And where is your roommate now? Are you still in the house with him?

Caller: Yes, I’m right here beside him.

Operator: What’s your name?

Caller: Michael Anderson

Operator: OK Michael. What did you take that made you do this?

Caller: I took, I OD'd on Mucinex DM. The Dextromethorphan makes me feel a little weird. I took too many.

Operator: What is your roommate’s name?

Caller: Stephen Starr

Operator: And you said you shot him?

Caller: Yes

Operator: Ok. Where is the gun at now?

Caller: In my hand.

Operator: In your hand?

Caller: Yes.

Operator: OK. I need you to put the gun somewhere. Ok?

Caller: I don’t know what to do now.

Operator: Listen, I’m going to stay on the phone with you ok?

Caller: Oh God. I don’t know what to do now.

Operator: What part of the house are you in?

Caller: I'm in the master bedroom

Operator: OK. Where is your roommate at?

Caller: He's in his bed.

Operator: OK. I want. Can you take the gun and put it on the floor and go to like, is the living room where your front door is?

Caller: Um, no.

Operator: Ok. Where's your front door at? What part of the house?

Caller: Um. Right as you walk off the master bedroom you turn right, uh left.

Operator: OK

Caller: And the front door's right there.

Operator: Ok. Can you lay the gun down on the floor?

Caller: Uh. Um.,

Operator: I don't want you to have a gun in your hand ok? Can you lay it down on the floor?

Caller: Uh. I don't know what to do now.

Operator: Ok. I'm going to help you. Ok? But what I need you to do is put that gun down.

Caller: Oh Lord.I don't know why I did it

Operator: Ok. Well we're going to get you some help. Ok?

Caller: I stopped taking my meds for ADHD when I was like 17 but I didn't think it would matter.

Operator: OK that's ok.. I'm going to help you.

Caller: I started getting real bad on drugs and ... and then I killed my roommate. I can't believe I just killed my roommate. My life is ruined.

Operator: OK. I need you to put that gun down Ok? And I need you to, can you put it on the floor?

Caller: Alright.

Operator: OK. Are you on a cordless phone or a cell phone that you can walk around the house?

Caller: Yes.

Operator: OK. I want you to go to the room where the front door is ok?

Caller: Alright.

Operator: Ok. What room is that? Is that a kitchen or what is it?

Caller: It's kind of like a living room dining room.

Operator: Ok. Is there a place for you to sit down there?

Caller: There's a chair right at the front door.

Operator: Ok. Sit down in the chair. I want you to tell me and promise me that you do not have gun or anything in your hands. No weapons.

Caller: No ma'am.

Operator: OK. I want you to sit down in that chair. Ok?

Caller: Yes ma'am.

Operator: I'm going to get some help out there for you alright?

Caller: Oh.. and um ma'am? (pause) I did some things to his body that you don't want them to see.

Operator: Ok well. I've got you some help on the way out there, OK?

Caller: They're not going to know who it is.

Operator: OK I need you to stay on the phone with me til they get there. OK?

Caller: I need to go to a mental hospital, too.

Operator: We're going to get you some help. Alright? We're going to get you some help. I promise.

Caller: Ok.

Operator: Ok? Just try to calm down.

Caller: I think I'm having a panic attack.

Operator: Ok. What you need to do is take a deep breath and calm down.

Operator: Did you and your roommate get into an argument. Or this just happened?

Caller: Um. We met at an um…I went to um. I was straight and I wanted to go bisexual and just to experiment and I went to a gay club and I met him and I went to his house. And he took me in. I turned straight again and he wanted to touch me and stuff and I wouldn't let him and he kept trying and I waited until he went to sleep and then I shot him three times and then I mutilated him very badly and I'm sorry.

Operator: We're going to get you some help. Ok?

Caller: Oh God. Please help me.

Operator: Do you have anybody else in the house with you?

Caller: No ma'am

Operator: Ok. Stay on the phone with me.

Caller: Yes ma'am.

Caller then gives address and explains directions to the house.

Caller: There will be a yellow truck and there will be wood out there that I was chopping. And the axe. I'm sorry ma'am but the axe is inside his stomach.

Operator: Ok. I want you to stay on the phone with me. But you said you do not have any weapons with you correct?

Caller: No.

Operator: Ok. I just don't want you to have any weapons in your hands ok?

Caller: Ok.

Caller: I'm sorry to ruin your night, ma'am.

Operator: Do what?

Caller: I'm sorry to ruin your night.

Operator: You're fine. We're going to get you some help. Ok?

Caller: I've got blood all over my hands…

Operator: I want you to stay where you are. Ok? Just stay sitting in the chair. Take some deep breaths. We've got you some help on the way.

Caller: Here come the police.

Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/20...text-michael-andersons-911.html#ixzz1GlEANf2f
Click to expand...
 
Shit they're goin to throw the book at his ass after hearin that 911 tape. The operator definitely kept her composure I'd be like LISTEN YOU SICK FUCK PUT THE GUN DOWN AND WALK THE FUCK OUTSIDE. lol at the bitch bein like "what do you mean you murdered your roommate?" Seems pretty self explanatory to me.
 
This guy sounds mentally ill. His argument makes no sense. It def wasn't the dxm that did it either. The last (and only) time I ingested that stuff, I lost coordination and wouldln't have been able sound very coherent either.
 
^ He sounded very scared and apologetic and confused, the 911 operator really did a good job on that call to calm him down. Shame this had happened, but DXM makes you do really crazy stuff, not saying it will turn you into a murderer, but it really screws up your rational thinking for quite some time.
On a sad note I bet that this will not be on the nightly news or even mentioned because the pharmacutical companies will argue DXM should not be ingested in ammounts such as the ones he took, just like the 'bath salts' that are not intended for human consumption but seem to get such a bad rap.
 
Anything that fucks with your ability to think rationally can cause you to do things you wouldn't otherwise do. Sober I wouldn't jump on the table and start stripping. Fortunately I can get drunk and please the ladies thought ;)

Not that table stripping is the same as ax murder, but really, are they that different?
 
Not that table stripping is the same as ax murder, but really, are they that different?
Click to expand...

Don't be absurd, of course they are.

That Operator did a sensational job at talking him down and handling such a fucked up situation though.

It sounds like a bizarre case, but in all likelyhood there's some serious mental illness lying at the root of it, possibly compounded by the DXM use.
 
Well it's kind of hard to pick up on sarcasm over the internet, strangely enough.
 
I'll blame being tired and high then, happy :p We're getting quite derailed here anyway.
 
Crankinit said:
It sounds like a bizarre case, but in all likelyhood there's some serious mental illness lying at the root of it, possibly compounded by the DXM use.
Click to expand...



Of course this kid has some serious mental issues & the DXM brought them to the surface. It happens all the time with other drugs as well when people flip out & the police wanna blame the drugs for what happened.
 
LogicSoDeveloped said:
This guy sounds mentally ill. His argument makes no sense. It def wasn't the dxm that did it either. The last (and only) time I ingested that stuff, I lost coordination and wouldln't have been able sound very coherent either.
Click to expand...

I wouldn't say that it definitely wasn't the DXM. The drug effects many people differently. DXM is the only drug I've taken to this day that has caused me want to become physically aggressive for no reason other than feeling the effects of the drug.
 
It's quite possible the axe murderer was using the old "I took some pills" defense, was setting it up even before he called 911.

Or maybe the mucinex simply dislodged subsurface thoughts that were already present.

Either way, my next DXM trip is postponed until I can put this horrid story in its proper place :( I want only the best thoughts echoing through my mind...
 
Fuckin hell.... :(

This guy was most definitely mentally unstable (mental illness and substance abuse often go hand in hand), it's likely being on ADHD meds will have altered his Dopamine system, then there's the fact that DXM is what is known as a "Dirty Drug" (meaning it effects a great deal of neurotransmitters and acts on many different receptors) so the effects are often different for everyone.

It's not a good idea to take something like DXM when you have mental illness, especially something that's seemingly Psychosis-like.
I mean think of someone in this bloke's mindset taking PCP.....

He needs some serious help.
 
While I'm not contesting that DXM might impair one's judgement, if DXM is banned because of this, it'll remind me of another historic ban:
http://reefermadnessmuseum.org/chap10/GorePart-1.htm

"A young boy who had become addicted to smoking marihuana cigarettes, in a fit of frenzy because, as he stated while still under the marihuana influence, a number of people were trying to cut off his arms and legs, seized an axe and killed his father, mother, two brothers and a sister, wiping out the entire family except himself." -- Mr. Anslinger 1937 Congressional Testimony
Click to expand...
 
Last edited:
No way! He didn't kill himself either? That's not true Reefer Madness. That's barely a Reefer Episode 8)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top