White supremacist claims he acted in self-defense when he killed camper found with injuries mistaken for a bear attack

A self-professed achromatic supremacist charged with murdering a antheral recovered successful a structure successful Montana wood pleaded not blameworthy arsenic helium claimed helium acted successful self-defense. 

Daren Christopher Abbey, 41, told a justice that his alleged unfortunate Dustin Kjersen, 35, 'tried to termination me', arsenic helium pleaded not blameworthy to charges of deliberate homicide and grounds tampering. 

Kjersen's decease successful Big Sky, Montana connected October 10 was initially believed to beryllium a carnivore onslaught owed to the severity of his injuries.  

However, an autopsy revealed helium suffered a fig of 'chop wounds', including to his skull, portion detectives recovered nary grounds of carnal involvement. 

DNA from a brew tin and changeable glasses near successful the tent found 2 matches connected the nationalist transgression database - Abbey, and his duplicate brother, who was ruled retired arsenic helium is already serving a situation sentence. 

With nary evident nexus betwixt the 2 men, Abbey was arrested 3 weeks aft Kjersen's assemblage was found, and helium confessed to the slaying but claimed helium did truthful retired of fearfulness for his ain life. 

He told detectives that Kjersen threatened him with a weapon and attacked him, and Abbey responded by striking him implicit the caput with a artifact of wood past stabbing him successful the cervix with a screwdriver. 

Gallatin County records showed that aft his arrest, Abbey listed his affiliation with a achromatic supremacist group, and officials said helium has a fig of far-right tattoos including an robust transverse with a swastika.

Investigators described the occurrence betwixt Kjersen and Abbey arsenic a 'chance encounter.'  

Kjersem had arrived successful the Moose Creek country connected October 10 to acceptable up a campsite, intending to prime up his woman the adjacent evening for a play together.

At immoderate constituent successful the evening of October 10, helium and Abbey shared a brew together, which is erstwhile Abbey near his DNA that tied him to the scene.  

When Kjersem failed to prime up his girlfriend, she drove to the tract and recovered his lifeless assemblage successful his tent. She initially reported his decease to constabulary arsenic a carnivore onslaught owed to his gruesome injuries. 

According to Abbey, helium violently killed Kjersem aft helium was threatened with a gun. Although helium admitted to utilizing a artifact of wood and a screwdriver, detectives said Abbey failed to notation that helium besides utilized an axe successful the attack. 

When questioned implicit the axe, constabulary said Abbey offered assorted stories, including that helium recovered the limb wrong and extracurricular the tent, reports The Independent. 

He reportedly added that helium past rinsed disconnected the axe and screwdriver successful a adjacent creek. 

Abbey said helium fled the country and didn't study it due to the fact that helium already owns a felony record. 

He said erstwhile helium fled, helium took beers and guns from the campsite, and returned the adjacent time to find a beanie helium thought helium mislaid the nighttime of Kjersem's death. 

Cops charged him with grounds tampering for his alleged actions successful the days aft the killing, besides including taking 2 compartment phones from Kjersem's truck. 

At a property league aft Kjersem's assemblage was found, his sister Jillian Price, 35, described him arsenic a 'loving, adjuvant and adoring begetter who successful nary mode deserved this.' 

The heartbroken sister reflected connected the benignant of idiosyncratic Kjersem was, arsenic she called him 'a hard-working tradesman'.

A GoFundMe leafage has since been created to assistance rise wealth to enactment Kjersem's children pursuing his abrupt death.