Christina Grimmie’s demise was planned out by stalker Kevin Loibl, but “The Voice” contestant appears to have not received any threats prior to her June 11 murder in Orlando, Florida, according to a police report obtained by Fox News.
Grimmie’s brother, Marcus, and her father both told authorities the singer hadn’t been threatened by anyone before the shooting, Fox News reported Wednesday.
Those who best knew the 27-year-old suspect described him as an odd, obsessive loner.
According to Loibl’s father, his son blocked out his bedroom windows with aluminum foil and lived “like a hermit,” but had never been diagnosed with a mental illness. Co-workers said he was “socially awkward,” “detached” and “watched everything having to do with” Grimmie that he could find online.
One co-worker, Cory Dennington, told police the last time he saw Loibl, he remarked that he “was tired and ready to ascend,” in retrospect likely a reference to the planned murder-suicide.
Authorities said Loibl destroyed his computer hard drive before he went to Grimmie’s Orlando show, and no data could be retrieved from his encrypted smartphone, Fox reported.
• Ken Shepherd can be reached at kshepherd@washingtontimes.com.
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