Rochester, N.Y. --- Court documents attached to the indictment charging Clayton Scott Whittemore with 2nd Degree Murder include statements Whittemore reportedly made to a Monroe County Sheriff's Office Jail Deputy.
Whittemore, 21, is accused of killing his girlfriend Alexandra Kogut, 18, on September 29th inside Kogut's SUNY Brockport dorm room where she was living as a freshman student.
"I killed my girlfriend," the deputy reports hearing Whittemore say while explaining that he wanted to clear his mind.
Whittemore was attending college in Utica and drove to SUNY Brockport to visit his girlfriend Alex of 2 years according to this deputy's report. The deputy explained that Whittemore states his girlfriend was being rude the entire time and that he received an open container ticket on the way back to her dorm room that "made me mad" he reportedly said.
The statements were reportedly made to this deputy around 5:15 p.m. on September 29th. Whittemore was under "constant observation" at the time.
The report (attached) states:
Once they arrived to the dorm room he stated that they began to argue about "stupid stuff." He stated "she started pushing me and yelling at me" , "so I pushed her back against the wall to get her to stop. She wouldn't stop pushing me, so I started punching her and just snapped." I kept hitting her over and over with my fists" He then told me that he was trying to kill her.
Inmate Whittemore then stated "her breathing sounded bad, like there was blood or something blocking her breathing. "I didn't want the girl I loved to suffer so I started beating her with a curling iron until the noise stopped."
Inmate Whittemore stated that he knew she was dead when he left the dorm room. Inmate also stated, "I wasn't even drunk, I just snapped."
