A California man charged with murdering a 71-year-old registered sex offender told police he’d been jonesing to do it for years and found it every bit as fulfilling as he’d anticipated.
Varun Suresh, 29, was charged Monday with murder, armed individual causing great bodily injury and residential burglary, the Fremont Police Department said in a statement.
Police in the East Bay city had responded to a residence around noon last Thursday after receiving a 911 call regarding a “violent altercation between two individuals.” Upon arriving to the scene, they found David Brimmer “suffering from significant stab wounds” that officers’ immediate trauma care could not save him from.
Suresh was arrested outside the home, with investigators soon learning that he was on a mission to kill “child molesters.” He’d homed in on Brimmer via California’s Megan’s Law Website, which lists registered sex offenders in the state. Suresh allegedly told police he selected his victim based on his age, thinking the elderly man would “be easy to kill,” according to a probable cause affidavit.
Toting a bag, a notebook and a cup of coffee as props, Suresh knocked on several doors and pretended to be an accountant drumming up business so as not to arouse suspicion, according to court documents obtained by local media. He chatted with the person who answered Brimmer’s door until confident he was speaking to the man himself. The self-styled vigilante then whipped out a knife and went in for the kill.
Brimmer bolted, Suresh followed, and they ended up in the kitchen of a neighbor’s home two blocks away. Suresh stabbed Brimmer in the neck, and the blood started flowing. The marked man then stumbled outside, where Suresh pinned him down and stabbed him repeatedly in the neck, slitting his throat “to make sure it was done,” he told police.
The blood-soaked butcher then stood up, dropped the knife and lit a cigarette while waiting for law enforcement to arrive, The Mercury News reported. Laughing while in custody, the unrepentant assassin told police he “didn’t feel sad at all” because murdering Brimmer had been “honestly really fun.”
Suresh apparently thought killing a child molester was sanctioned and had several screenshots of Megan’s Law entrants on his phone in addition to Brimmer’s.
“I’m hoping … that because he’s a pedophile … like, everyone hates pedophiles … so like, it should be cool,” Suresh allegedly told police. “I honestly don’t like pedophiles. They deserve to die.”