Bluml son, biological mom were living together in months before shooting
http://www.kansas.com/2013/11/21/3132730/search-continues-for-evidence.html
A few weeks ago, Bluml, 18, Schaberg, 35, her 7-year-old daughter and a man named Braden left San Diego for Kansas, said Victoria Egerer, a 20-year-old former stepdaughter of Schaberg who lives in Riverside, Calif....
Egerer said she was told this by Schaberg: “I know that Tony (Bluml) did not like living with his adopted parents. He told Kisha (Schaberg) that they were too strict.
They didn’t let him do whatever he wanted, and I guess that irritated him,” Egerer said Thursday. Egerer said she heard from Schaberg that Tony’s younger brother, Chris, didn’t want anything to do with his biological mother. That made Schaberg upset because she felt that the adoptive parents, Melissa and Roger Bluml, had turned the younger brother against Schaberg, Egerer said....He and Schaberg had been in contact through Facebook before he left for California...
Schaberg had a girlfriend at the time who financially supported everyone. There was pot-smoking in the home, Egerer said, based on what she heard and saw. Egerer said Schaberg told her that a
gun was kept under a mattress for protection.
Schaberg’s girlfriend got tired of supporting everyone and thought the others should get a job. Schaberg told Egerer that she didn’t think Tony Bluml should have to work or clean the house, that it wasn’t fair. So Schaberg, Bluml and Braden moved to a San Diego hotel.
Egerer said her 7-year-old half-sister told her she didn’t want to go to the hotel.
The 7-year-old told Egerer that she slept on the floor so Tony Bluml and his biological mother could sleep in bed together.
California woman witnessed reunion of biological mom, son arrested in Valley Center-area shooting
http://www.kansas.com/2013/11/23/3136994/california-woman-witnessed-reunion.html
Less than a year ago, Bluml was a star wrestler at Valley Center High School... About two months ago, Bluml moved in with Schaberg in San Diego after they had communicated by social media....
Hamilton, 43, said she works as a security officer and has known Schaberg for more than 25 years. The two have been girlfriends in a relationship....
Schaberg carried a burden over giving up Tony Bluml and a younger brother, Chris Bluml, for adoption when Tony was around 6 or 7 and Chris was 4 or 5, Hamilton said....Schaberg “always talked about her sons and how she loved them and how much she missed them and how she regretted giving them up,” Hamilton said. “She felt really, really bad, and it tore her apart.”...“She was happy with the fact the Blumls came forward and wanted to take care” of her sons, Hamilton said.
Years passed, and Schaberg knew the boys were being taken care of. Eventually, Schaberg had another child, a daughter, now 7.
Hamilton said her message to Schaberg was: When the time is right, the boys will talk to you, on their own. Just let them know you are there....“He had plans with his life,” Hamilton said. He talked of wanting to go into the Air Force.... Bluml told Hamilton and Schaberg that he had a bad childhood, that his adoptive mother didn’t love him as she did his younger brother, and that he didn’t want to call her “Mom,” Hamilton said. And he said his adoptive father put him down, Hamilton said. But Bluml’s claims didn’t make sense, Hamilton said, because the younger brother seemed to be happy. “I don’t think he was treated poorly,” Hamilton said of Tony Bluml. “I know that the Blumls loved him.” ... Hamilton said she thought Tony Bluml had been somewhat traumatized because he had moved around a lot before he was adopted.... Hamilton also told her: “You can’t treat him … like he’s your baby.” And according to Hamilton, Schaberg responded, “Yes, I’m going to make up for lost time, so I’m going to do whatever I have to do to make my child happy.”
... Hamilton was supporting everyone by working two jobs, although Schaberg paid her share from state aid. Bluml and Smith were trying to sell marijuana near the home, Hamilton said. She said she told them: “This is dangerous” and “I cannot have this in my home. You have to take this elsewhere.”
...Hamilton said she has been working on getting guardianship of the 7-year-old and thought the girl was being neglected because of the presence of the men... The girl wanted to stay with Hamilton in California, she said. But “Tony said he knows what it’s like to not be with his mother” and talked Schaberg into taking her daughter with her to Kansas, Hamilton said.
Schaberg had changed since Bluml moved in, Hamilton said. “She was goal-oriented before he came down,” she said. “He had her under, I would say, a spell, and it all changed when he got here. “He even tried to get me” to be part of the drug dealing, Hamilton said. She said Schaberg had been sober before Bluml came to live with them.
Valley Center-area fatal shooting defendant seeks to suppress statement
http://www.kansas.com/2014/01/20/3239366/valley-center-area-fatal-shooting.html
Anthony Bluml, the 19-year-old adopted son of Melissa and Roger Bluml, has filed a
handwritten “Motion to Suppress Evidence” saying he was “not in complete control of his mental faculties” when he was questioned. He said detectives went ahead with questioning after he “stated clearly that he was under the influence of narcotics.”
...He said he needed “a day to give a presentation” so he could “show without a doubt” that he was under the influence of narcotics on the day of questioning.
His defense lawyer couldn’t be reached for comment Monday.
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