RUTLAND, Vt. — The son of a Vermont city official accused of killing his father, stepmother and stepbrother pleaded not responsible Thursday and was ordered held with out bail Thursday throughout his first courtroom look in Vermont.
A protection legal professional entered the pleas of not responsible to three counts of aggravated homicide on behalf of Brian Crossman Jr., 23, of Granville, New York, who waived extradition from his house state, the place he was arrested. He will probably be jailed till a Vermont choose holds one other listening to on whether or not he ought to be detained by way of trial.
Crossman Jr., who watched by way of video feed from jail, didn’t communicate in the course of the transient listening to.
He is charged within the killings early Sept. 15 of his father, 46-year-old Brian Crossman Sr., a member of the Pawlet Selectboard, together with Erica Crossman, 41, and Colin Taft, 13, of their Pawlet house.
A prosecutor stated autopsies confirmed two of the victims died from gunshot wounds. “We imagine that reveals a sustained and harsh type of violence towards his victims that ought to give the courtroom important pause when contemplating whether or not or to not launch the defendant,” the prosecutor stated.
Crossman, who reported the killings, informed police that he was lined in blood as a result of he tried to tug his father’s physique away to take it to a relative’s house after coming back from a stroll to seek out the three lifeless whereas spending the weekend with them, in keeping with an affidavit. State police discovered an open gun secure and a number of other weapons strewn about.
Crossman Jr. was admitted to a psychological well being unit of the Glens Falls Hospital on the day of the killings, in keeping with police. New York State Police arrested him Sept. 19.
