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VESTAL -- While police remained quiet about many details of
their ongoing investigation, a fuller picture emerged Thursday
of the man accused of the New Year's Day slaying of his former
high school classmate.
Alan Outman, 22, was plagued by financial problems, emotionally
troubled by alleged sexual discrimination from former co-
workers, and enrolled at a Johnson City Bible college in the
weeks before his arrest, court documents showed.
Outman was arrested by Vestal police in Johnson City on
Wednesday night following a multi-agency police investigation
that began when David S. Fillers, 21, of Dickinson, was reported
missing on New Year's Day.
"This is not a usual occurrence in the Town of Vestal," Vestal
Police Chief John Butler said. "Certainly, this was not a random
act."
Prior to the 2009 stabbing death of Binghamton University
professor Richard T. Antoun, there had not been a homicide in
Vestal for nearly two decades.
Fillers was among a group of friends celebrating New Year's Eve
in downtown Binghamton, Broome County Sheriff David Harder said
during a Thursday morning news conference.
"A group of people got together intending to have a nice time on
New Year's Eve," Harder said, "(They) did the right thing and
rented a couple rooms in the Holiday Inn down in Binghamton.
They planned on going out and having a nice time."
During the evening, however, the group -- which did not include
Outman -- became separated.
"Fillers ended up in Vestal with Outman and some other people,"
Harder said.
Fillers was last heard from about 3:30 a.m. Sunday, and was
reported missing that evening. Investigators found his body
early Monday morning in a culvert near the Quality Inn & Suites
in Vestal.
It is believed Outman acted alone, Harder said Thursday.
The sheriff didn't disclose how Fillers died or the condition of
his body, how he got to Vestal, or a suspected motive behind the
killing.
Investigators are "still trying to narrow some things down" to
determine if either Outman or Fillers were inside the Quality
Inn at any point during the night.
"The investigation is not closed because of the arrest," Harder
said. "There's going to be a lot of follow-up work."
Police would not say where they believed the slaying took place,
but a felony complaint filed in Vestal Town Court accused Outman
of killing Fillers "in the area of 4104 Vestal Road" -- a
property near the Quality Inn that houses Lourdes at Home
hospice.
The two men knew of each other, police said, but did not appear
to be close friends.
"They went to Chenango Valley High School together," Harder
said. "They're not close associates. They just know each other."
Outman was charged with second-degree murder, arraigned in Town
of Vestal Court and booked at the Broome County jail at 10:24
p.m. Wednesday night.
Troubled history
Court documents indicate Outman was stricken by financial and
emotional issues in the months preceding the alleged slaying.
He was evicted from an apartment on Binghamton's South Side in
May of last year after allegedly falling $1,108 in debt to his
landlord.
Then, in October, Chenango Ambulance Services filed a $2,287
claim against Outman for failing to attend classes it had paid
for.
Outman was a volunteer at Chenango Ambulance Services until he
resigned in December 2010, President/CEO Jeff Allen said.
In November, Outman counter-sued Chenango Ambulance Services for
$5,000 saying the organization "willfully and intentionally
failed to provide a safe work environment and allowed sexual
harassment, discrimination, and acts/threats of physical
violence to occur on a daily basis."
In a two-page, handwritten document entered into court records,
Outman said he was smacked and punched in addition to verbal
attacks on his sexuality.
"(Co-workers) were involved in making inappropriate, demeaning
and derogatory sexual comments and slurs towards me," Outman
wrote, "to include jokes and commentary about homosexuality,
even to the point of equating me to ... a 'pedophile' and/or
sexual deviant, due to their perceiving (sic) me as homosexual."
In one of the court documents, Outman said he had an $80 deficit
in his bank account.
Allen, the head of Chenango Ambulance Services, declined to
comment on Outman's allegations.
Outman's residence in court documents was listed as Patterson
Hall, a dormitory at Davis College. College President Dino
Pedrone said he could not confirm that Outman was registered as
a student.
While attending another college in October 2008, Outman
reportedly was threatened after witnessing another act of
violence.
At the time, Outman reportedly told television news station Your
News Now that his life was threatened after witnessing a gang-
related stabbing at SUNY-Canton.
After he talked with university police, he found the words "you
talk, you die," written on his door and decided to transfer away
from the school, he told the station.
"Apparently, the whole residence hall had found out that I had
talked to the UP and the wrong person found out," Outman told
YNN.
Anyone who knows Outman or has any other information about the
incident is asked to call the Broome County Sheriff's Office tip
line at (607) 778-1196.
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indicate?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CLocal%20News%7Cs
VESTAL -- While police remained quiet about many details of
their ongoing investigation, a fuller picture emerged Thursday
of the man accused of the New Year's Day slaying of his former
high school classmate.
Alan Outman, 22, was plagued by financial problems, emotionally
troubled by alleged sexual discrimination from former co-
workers, and enrolled at a Johnson City Bible college in the
weeks before his arrest, court documents showed.
Outman was arrested by Vestal police in Johnson City on
Wednesday night following a multi-agency police investigation
that began when David S. Fillers, 21, of Dickinson, was reported
missing on New Year's Day.
"This is not a usual occurrence in the Town of Vestal," Vestal
Police Chief John Butler said. "Certainly, this was not a random
act."
Prior to the 2009 stabbing death of Binghamton University
professor Richard T. Antoun, there had not been a homicide in
Vestal for nearly two decades.
Fillers was among a group of friends celebrating New Year's Eve
in downtown Binghamton, Broome County Sheriff David Harder said
during a Thursday morning news conference.
"A group of people got together intending to have a nice time on
New Year's Eve," Harder said, "(They) did the right thing and
rented a couple rooms in the Holiday Inn down in Binghamton.
They planned on going out and having a nice time."
During the evening, however, the group -- which did not include
Outman -- became separated.
"Fillers ended up in Vestal with Outman and some other people,"
Harder said.
Fillers was last heard from about 3:30 a.m. Sunday, and was
reported missing that evening. Investigators found his body
early Monday morning in a culvert near the Quality Inn & Suites
in Vestal.
It is believed Outman acted alone, Harder said Thursday.
The sheriff didn't disclose how Fillers died or the condition of
his body, how he got to Vestal, or a suspected motive behind the
killing.
Investigators are "still trying to narrow some things down" to
determine if either Outman or Fillers were inside the Quality
Inn at any point during the night.
"The investigation is not closed because of the arrest," Harder
said. "There's going to be a lot of follow-up work."
Police would not say where they believed the slaying took place,
but a felony complaint filed in Vestal Town Court accused Outman
of killing Fillers "in the area of 4104 Vestal Road" -- a
property near the Quality Inn that houses Lourdes at Home
hospice.
The two men knew of each other, police said, but did not appear
to be close friends.
"They went to Chenango Valley High School together," Harder
said. "They're not close associates. They just know each other."
Outman was charged with second-degree murder, arraigned in Town
of Vestal Court and booked at the Broome County jail at 10:24
p.m. Wednesday night.
Troubled history
Court documents indicate Outman was stricken by financial and
emotional issues in the months preceding the alleged slaying.
He was evicted from an apartment on Binghamton's South Side in
May of last year after allegedly falling $1,108 in debt to his
landlord.
Then, in October, Chenango Ambulance Services filed a $2,287
claim against Outman for failing to attend classes it had paid
for.
Outman was a volunteer at Chenango Ambulance Services until he
resigned in December 2010, President/CEO Jeff Allen said.
In November, Outman counter-sued Chenango Ambulance Services for
$5,000 saying the organization "willfully and intentionally
failed to provide a safe work environment and allowed sexual
harassment, discrimination, and acts/threats of physical
violence to occur on a daily basis."
In a two-page, handwritten document entered into court records,
Outman said he was smacked and punched in addition to verbal
attacks on his sexuality.
"(Co-workers) were involved in making inappropriate, demeaning
and derogatory sexual comments and slurs towards me," Outman
wrote, "to include jokes and commentary about homosexuality,
even to the point of equating me to ... a 'pedophile' and/or
sexual deviant, due to their perceiving (sic) me as homosexual."
In one of the court documents, Outman said he had an $80 deficit
in his bank account.
Allen, the head of Chenango Ambulance Services, declined to
comment on Outman's allegations.
Outman's residence in court documents was listed as Patterson
Hall, a dormitory at Davis College. College President Dino
Pedrone said he could not confirm that Outman was registered as
a student.
While attending another college in October 2008, Outman
reportedly was threatened after witnessing another act of
violence.
At the time, Outman reportedly told television news station Your
News Now that his life was threatened after witnessing a gang-
related stabbing at SUNY-Canton.
After he talked with university police, he found the words "you
talk, you die," written on his door and decided to transfer away
from the school, he told the station.
"Apparently, the whole residence hall had found out that I had
talked to the UP and the wrong person found out," Outman told
YNN.
Anyone who knows Outman or has any other information about the
incident is asked to call the Broome County Sheriff's Office tip
line at (607) 778-1196.