Man kills wife, ex-partner, sons after anti-Trump election rants online

By Jen Krausz on
 November 11, 2024

A Minnesota man who ranted about the election of Donald Trump killed his wife, ex-partner, and two sons before taking his own life on Thursday.

Police said that 46-year-old Anthony Nephew had a “pattern of mental health issues,” according to Duluth Police Chief Mike Ceynowa.

They found Nephew’s ex-partner Erin Abramson, 47, and their son, Jacob Nephew, 15, dead in Abramson's home with gunshot wounds.

After identifying Nephew as a suspect, they then found 45-year-old wife, Kathryn Nephew, and their 7-year-old son, Oliver Nephew, shot dead inside the family home along with Nephew.

"Terrified"

As far back as July, Nephew had been ranting online against Trump based on comments that he made but were taken out of context.

“My mental health and the world can no longer peacefully coexist, and a lot of the reason is religion," he wrote in July.

“I am terrified of religious zealots inflicting their misguided beliefs on me and my family. I have intrusive thoughts of being burned at the stake as a witch, or crucified on a burning cross.

“Having people actually believe that I or my child are Satan or, the anti-Christ or whatever their favorite color of boogie man they are afraid are this week.”

"A binary choice"

“Not that anyone cares, but as an Independent voter, I would really like to see both the political parties in our country pick better candidates,” he wrote at the time. “We can do better than a binary choice between fascism and not fascism.”

As far back as 2021, and somewhat prophetically, he wrote in an op-ed for the local Duluth news, "For millions of Americans, a breakdown leads to suicide — or homicide before suicide.”

“Mental health in this country is stigmatized, ignored, or treated as a burden for the individual to bear alone, with little help and less understanding,” he wrote.

“Americans deny they have mental health struggles. Because they have to, because they’re told to, or because they don’t realize their mind is broken," he added.

Sadly, Nephew's rants did not give any clues about what he would go on to do.

Certainly, Democrats' contentions that Trump was a "threat to democracy" and that all kinds of horrible things would happen if Trump was elected did not help anyone in a fragile mental state maintain their stability after he was elected.

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