Funeral services were held Thursday, October 4 for Alexandra Kogut, 18, of New Hartford who was murdered in her SUNY Brockport freshman dorm room early Saturday, September 29.

Kogut, a recent New Hartford High School graduate, was a part-time lifeguard this past summer at the Inlet Town Beach, and has family in the Big Moose area.

The eulogy for Kogut was read by Rev. Paul Drobin at St. John the Evangelist Church in front of the hundreds of people in attendance. Many of whom were wearing purple, the color associated with domestic violence. Kogut’s boyfriend, Clayton Whittemore, 21, also a New Hartford graduate and a current student at Utica College, is accused of beating Kogut to death and was initially charged with second-degree murder. Continue reading →