ORLANDO, Fla. — On June 9, Kevin James Loibl, 27, walked out of the St. Petersburg home he shared with his father and brother, got into a cab and paid the driver $200 for a round-trip ride to Orlando.
He brought toiletries in a small backpack, two handguns, a tactical knife and a ticket to see Christina Grimmie perform at the Plaza Live Theater the next night.
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After the concert, he got in line to meet Grimmie, a star on the TV show “The Voice,” and then shot her four times.
Grimmie’s brother leaped after Loibl, but the man was able to break away, back up against the wall and shoot himself in the head, a recently released Orlando police report said.
Wearing a “distinctive” red, white and blue shirt, Loibl could be seen in the back of the theater in photos and video shot during the concert, the report said.
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Police said he was found with two gun holsters clipped into the back of his pants, two full 9mm magazines in his pockets and a tactical knife strapped to his ankle.
Grimmie’s family said she had never received any threats or “undue attention from any overaggressive fans,” the report said.
Nor could any of them remember seeing him before at any other concerts.
Loibl was caught on camera before the show inside a nearby Old Navy.
He was in the store 36 minutes, where he bought a hat and a bottle of water, before the concert started.
He ‘lived like a hermit’
Loibl’s brother and father told investigators that they had never hear him talk about Grimmie and said the man had never been diagnosed with a mental illness or threatened to hurt anyone.
His brother told officers that Loibl did “live like a hermit” and hardly ever left his room except to go to his part time job as a member of the Geek Squad at Best Buy.
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When they searched Loibl’s bedroom, investigators noted a thin mattress on the floor, bare walls and windows that were covered in heavy tin foil and thick curtains.
‘Only friend in the world’ knew about obsession with singer
A co-worker of Loibl’s at Best Buy, who, according to several witnesses, was the shooter’s “only friend in the world,” told officers that he knew about the man’s obsession with Grimmie.
It started six months to a year before and the co-worker, Cory Dennington, believed Loibl “spent most of his waking hours watching (Grimmie) on YouTube as well as constantly monitoring her social media accounts.”
Photos: 'The Voice' singer Christina Grimmie
Despite following the singer’s life online, Loibl himself did not have any social media accounts, police said.
Police took Loibl's computer but it provided no clues in the killing, because it is believed that he intentionally destroyed the hard drive.
Authorities said Loibl's cellphone was encrypted.
Loibl described Grimmie as his “soul mate” and told Dennington that he’d lost 50 pounds, gotten Lasik surgery, hair implants and his teeth whitened to improve his appearance for her, the report said.
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Loibl also bragged to his co-workers about playing online games with Grimmie, a claim police could not verify.
All the weapons Loibl used were purchased legally but his family, friends and co-workers did not know he had them, investigators said.
The last time Dennington saw Loibl was on June 5, and when detectives asked what the man’s demeanor was like that day, he told them, “in hindsight, a lot of weird things and a lot of sad things.”