Locals face personal, public tragedy in Casper

At about 9 a.m. Friday morning, Saratoga graduate Shaylee Burgess walked out of her classroom in the Wold Physical Science Center at Casper College to meet up with her mother at the campus library.

About 10 minutes later, police believe, Christopher Krumm, 25, of Vernon, Conn., allegedly walked into a nearby classroom, shot his father, James Krumm, 56, in the head and stabbed himself to death with a knife.

“She was in class two doors down from where it happened, she had class from 8 to 9,” Tanya Stolns, Shaylee’s mother, said Monday. “We were both in the library studying on the computers. The...