Long Island teen who shot ex in rage over getting dumped left disturbing note before botched murder-suicide

An unhinged Long Island teen charged with killing his ex-girlfriend in a botched murder-suicide was furious when she went off to college – and flew into a rage when she dumped him, Suffolk County prosecutors said Thursday.

“I have set my mind on leaving this place before my 18th birthday,” accused killer Austin Lynch wrote in a chilling manifesto after 18-year-old Emily Finn dumped him. “I f–king hate her.”

The disturbing new details came as Lynch, who survived a self-inflicted gunshot to the face during the Nov. 26 incident, wore green scrubs and bandages over much of his face as he was arraigned on a second-degree murder charge.

Assistant District Attorney Dena Rizopoulos said Lynch went from obsessive to downright scary after Finn left for SUNY Oneonta then dumped him two weeks before the murder.

“The victim’s friend described the two-week point when the defendant shifted to anger,” Rizopoulos told the judge. “In a conversation the weekend before the murder, this defendant told this friend that he would be dead by Wednesday.”

Finn, a bubbly freshman, was home for Thanksgiving break when she was confronted by Lynch.
A recent graduate of Sayville High School and a talented ballet dancer, Finn had trained at the American Ballet Studio in Bayport and was studying to be a school teacher.

More than a thousand mourners packed the Raynor & D’Andrea Funeral Home in West Sayville for her wake last week, many wearing pink – Finn’s favorite color – to honor her memory.

Suffolk County prosecutors had been waiting for Lynch to recover enough to be arraigned on murder charges in the cowardly slaying.

The accused killer was ordered held without bail.