A Weld District Court judge on Tuesday sentenced a former University of Northern Colorado doctoral student, 43-year-old Eric Kinder, to 12 years on intensive supervised probation for an incident last fall in which police confronted him at his house, where he was wearing guns on his belt and threatening suicide.
Kinder for the first time addressed the issue that led police to his house on Oct. 26, 2010.
“In the fall of 2010, I was accused of being a killer by the university,” Kinder said, “without anyone asking me a single question about it. They labeled me a killer and called the cops because I wrote a synopsis. They kicked me off campus, and the next day I went to a meeting and was frisked. … At least seven times, they told me, I did nothing wrong. All this was started by some girl in the writing lab. And my life has been destroyed.”
UNC police had been investigating Kinder after receiving some of his writing that referenced homicidal and suicidal statements. They also had learned of a Facebook posting by Kinder, “15 semesters at UNC. 15 guns to buy. 10 down, five to go.”
Kinder’s friends said later that Kinder gave himself guns as rewards for reaching certain milestones in school.
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