BRUTAL MURDER: Teen Shoots + Hacks Gay Roommate To Death After He 'Turned Straight Again'

Some people are mentally disturbed. And then there is Michael Anderson (pictured), a 19-year-old North Carolina man, who called 911 and told the dispatcher he had taken Mucinex cough medicine and then hacked his gay roommate to death with an axe after shooting him.

Facing murder charges in the death of Stephen Starr (pictured below), Anderson can be heard telling the 911 operator at 4:45am Monday, "I took some pills and, um, the pills made me go mad and I murdered my roommate. shot him three times and then I used an axe and mutilated his body." While being taken away from the home the two men shared, Anderson told reporters he loved ("as a friend") his slain roommate. But during the 911 call, Anderson says, "I was straight and I wanted to go bisexual just to experiment and I went to a gay club and I met him and I went to his house. And he took me in and I turned straight again and he wanted to touch me and stuff and I wouldn't let him and he kept trying and I waited until he went to sleep and then I shot him 3 times and then I mutilated him very badly." Yes, that's the sound of his defense attorney mounting a gay panic-by-medicine defense.

As for Starr, his lifeless body was found shot (by both a handgun and shotgun), stabbed (with the side of his body carved with a word), and torn up with the axe. Catawba County Sheriff Coy Reid says it's "probably one of the worst scenes I have seen in my 30 years of law enforcement."

Anderson's Facebook postings, however, indicate he may have planned the murder. Two successive posts on the site — where his status was listed "in a relationship" — declare his intent ("my killing starts tonight") and then appear to announce what he did ("i finally cracked guys i really did it this time").

In the middle of the 911 call (full recording below), Anderson says: "Oh lord, I don't know why I did this. … I can't believe I killed my roommate." He then tells the operator that when the police come they won't even recognize Starr's body. "The axe is inside his stomach."

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Sheriff: No Sign of Hate Crime in Arson

By Advocate.com Editors

A North Carolina sheriff investigating the arson that destroyed the home of a harassed gay couple over the weekend said there is no evidence of a hate crime at this point.

According to WRAL.com, Johnston County sheriff Steve Bizzell said, “As the investigation moves forward, if we see any indication that the hate crime status applies, we will consider it.”

Agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have joined the investigation into the early Friday blaze that destroyed the home of two men whom neighbors said had been harassed several times in the past year.

“Bizzell declined to comment on the current investigation but said his office was aware of two previous reports – one on Dec. 10, 2009, in which someone put a note in the mailbox saying ‘move sinners’ and a second complaint on Nov. 1 about a homophobic slur left on the back of the house,” reports WRAL.com.

The couple was not home at the time of the fire and the victims have declined to speak with media. Sources say the men are planning a job-related move to Georgia, and that the house had been on the market but was removed after it failed to sell.

The fire was set from inside the house. Investigators continue to seek a white Chevrolet S-10 crew-cab pickup truck seen towing two mowers believed to be from the property.

Watch the report.



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