 The crimes occurred on September 19, 2000, when Mink, angry with his parents because they hid his car keys to prevent him from leaving the house to buy drugs and alcohol, attacked William and Sheila Mink while they slept in their rural Montgomery County home.Enraged at being thwarted in his quest to get high, Mink beat his sleeping parents with a claw hammer until the head broke.He then battered them with cutting boards until those shattered.