An independent filmmaker and his family were found dead in a Minnesota home over the weekend from what media outlets are describing as an apparent murder suicide.
On Saturday, a neighbor alerted authorities after seeing the lifeless bodies of 29-year-old writer, film producer and Army veteran David Crowley, his wife Komel, 28, and their 5-year-old daughter, Rani, laying inside their Apple Valley home.
Neighbor Collin Prochnow was investigating why packages had been sitting on the family’s doorstep for weeks. Prochnow says that after ringing the doorbell he peered through the window and saw three bodies on the ground with a black handgun next to them, according to KARE11.
It’s uncertain how long the bodies had been there, but neighbors suspect they died sometime over the Christmas holiday.
Numerous law enforcement agencies are investigating the causes of death, but police have yet to release a statement. They are reportedly treating the death as suspicious, notes the Daily Mail.
Crowley served a tour of duty in Iraq during his five-year stint in the Army and met Komel while stationed in Texas, reports New York Daily News.
Neighbors say they hadn’t taken notice of the family’s absence, but say they’d previously seen Crowley in his yard playing with his daughter.
Though scant details have been made public, reports are already suggesting Crowley may be responsible due to a recent short haircut, recent pictures uploaded to social media and because he started wearing fatigues according to the Star Tribune.
Adding to the suspicious circumstances surrounding the deaths is the controversial nature of Crowley’s latest project, entitled Gray State, a highly-anticipated independent film envisioning a brutal police state, martial law crackdown, complete with biometric identification, a ubiquitous surveillance state and FEMA stormtroopers rounding dissidents up into camps.
One of the actors appearing in a trailer for Gray State, Charles Hubbell, told Pioneer Press Crowley seemed level-headed and destined to succeed.
He seemed more grounded and focused than would lend itself to anything chaotic, Hubbell described. The entire time I worked with him there was nothing aggressive or chaotic or strange or abnormal. He was one of the ones I was hanging my hat on, one who was going to succeed.
The film’s Indiegogo campaign met its finance goal in October 2012, raising $61,332 that would go towards pre-production needs.
Crowley had also been working on a non-fiction film entitled Gray State: The Rise, documentary extolling the beauty of liberty over oppression, slavery, and tyranny, according to the film’s Facebook page. A message appearing on the page yesterday lamented its director’s loss:
Director David Crowley and Gray State co-producer Danny Mason were interviewed on the Alex Jones Show in September 2012.
Going back to the nature of resistance, resistance is victory. That is a statement that the Gray State does a very good job of describing, Crowley told Alex. Even though you may be killed resisting, the act of resistance on a metaphysical level has value
American Veteran and Independent Filmmaker of Gray State Found Dead with His Family at Home in Minnesota
The creator, director and producer of the controversial movie about the encroaching police state and FEMA camps in America, David Crowley, has been found dead with his wife and young daughter over the weekend. The police are calling it a murder-suicide incident yet not ruling out anything suspicious.
The movie was currently in production and Crowley had recently received a contract of $30 million to complete the project of his dreams. While depression can have its harshest affects on people, his friends and co-workers have stated that the police story is highly unlikely.
His movie, Gray State, had a sort of cult following with nearly a million views of its trailer on YouTube.
The fiction movie is about the resistance to the police state and rise of enslavement here in America. It is set in the not-so-distant future with all the aspects one has come to expect about the end of our civilization and collapse of normal society: RFID chips, suspended travel, empty store shelves, FEMA camps, complete control through martial law.
There are many apocalyptic movies which don’t address these exact topics and many fans fear David Crowley may have been far too close to the truth.
We offer prayers for the families and all involved in this horrific tragedy, no matter whose hand caused it.
Watch David Crowley at PaulFest give a speech about his movie project and the current state of our devolved culture:
