Bone-chilling new security video captured a 31-year-old maniac stalking a trans University of Washington student inside an off-campus housing laundry room — just minutes before he allegedly stabbed the victim 40 times.
The creepy clip shows Christopher Leahy going in and out of the laundry room at the Nordheim Court student housing complex in Seattle on May 10, until he’s left alone with 19-year-old Juniper Blessing of New Jersey — at which point he allegedly unplugged the camera and stabbed the coed to death, KOMO-TV News reported.
The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office also released additional surveillance videos that allegedly show Leahy trying to open doors in several homes in the neighborhood earlier, the outlet said.
“Police indicate that there were attempts by the defendant to try to enter private homes in Ravenna in the days before the homicide,” Casey McNerthney, a rep for the prosecutors’ office, told KOMO.
“There was at least one other campus building that police say he attempted to get into before the death of Juniper on the 10th,” McNerthney said.
Leahy, who is not enrolled at the school, turned himself in to police on May 12 after cops released security camera photos of him at the scene, and is now charged with first-degree murder.
The newly released footage shows Leahy entering the laundry room behind another student around 9:45 p.m., and then abruptly leaves — only to return around 10 p.m., when Blessing is seen sitting on the floor in front of one of the dryers, with a male student standing nearby.
Leahy looks directly into the camera as he enters, but again quickly exits the room with the male student walking out behind him, leaving Blessing alone in the room.
King County prosecutors said Leahy then returned again and unplugged the security camera.
Prosecutors said Leahy “appears to follow the path of the power cord with his eyes and head from the camera around the wall above the doorway,” according to KOMO.
Minutes later, another student walked in and found Blessing bloodied on the floor and called 911.
Leahy had been due in court Thursday, but the hearing was delayed after his lawyer asked for more time for mental health evaluations, according to reports.
The victim’s family said the college student was born Michael Carneiro da Cunha Blessing in Princeton, New Jersey, and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2018, and attended the New Mexico School of Arts until 2024, according to a statement later released by the Human Rights Alliance.
“Our family has been shattered by the loss of our child, Juniper Blessing, to an act of unspeakable violence near the University of Washington campus in Seattle,” the statement said.
“Juniper was simply the most amazing human being we have ever known – highly intelligent, extremely talented, and deeply sensitive to the needs of others. Juniper’s loss not only devastates us but diminishes the world,” the family said.
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