An attorney for the Fremont man charged with the murder of an elderly registered sex offender asked a judge Thursday for an extension to enter a plea due to the man’s alleged mental health issues, according to NBC Bay Area.
Varun Suresh, 29, appeared in the East County Hall of Justice in Dublin as the judge granted his defense more time before entering a plea in the case that reportedly left David Brimmer, 71, dead from multiple stab wounds in a neighborhood near the Fremont Hills.
Suresh’s attorney told NBC Bay Area in a recent interview that “there are significant mental health issues we are exploring.” Suresh is expected back in court on Dec. 17.
In the case, Suresh is accused of using the Megan’s Law website, a state database which tracks the home addresses of registered sex offenders, to develop a plan to stab Brimmer to death.
Suresh allegedly posed as a door-to-door accountant looking for clients to coax Brimmer into speaking with him at Brimmer’s home. Suresh allegedly chased Brimmer into another nearby home with a knife, slashed him in the kitchen and stalked the bloody man to the front yard before fatally stabbing him several times. Suresh then allegedly stood up, smoked a cigarette and gave himself up to police.
The fatal incident police originally reported as a fight in a hillside neighborhood near Mission Peak was the result of Suresh’s pre-planned plot to kill “child molesters” and “sex offenders,” according to court documents. After Suresh surrendered to police, he reportedly admitted the whole scheme to investigators.
Suresh allegedly told police that he chose Brimmer because he wanted “someone who is easy to kill” and that “white guys are so much more graceful. … They have no victimhood.”
“I’m hoping … that because he’s a pedophile … like, everyone hates pedophiles … so like, it should be cool,” Suresh said, according to police. “I honestly don’t like pedophiles. They deserve to die.”
According to the Megan’s Law website, Brimmer, who lived at 743 Solstice Ct., had four prior convictions of sexual offenses involving children in Alameda County between 1995 and 2004.
The incident marked Fremont’s fifth homicide of the year.