PLATTSBURGH — Years ago, Malcolm Everett thought there was “something strange” about the teenage neighbor who used to play street hockey in their urban community in Nova Scotia.

“I hardly knew him, but there was something not quite right with him,” said Everett, who lived across the street from multiple-murder suspect Glen Race, 26, who is now accused of murdering Darcy Manor late last week at the secluded Mooers camp he helped maintain for the Vermont owners.

Race, also suspected in the homicides of two gay men in the Halifax, Nova Scotia, area, had moved to the quiet Dartmouth community as a young teen, Everett said.

He attended Dartmouth High School, according to Principal Phil Legere, where he played football with the Spartans and graduated “in the late ‘90s.”

He moved from the Vanessa Drive home a few years ago, when his parents and younger brother, Douglas, relocated, Everett said.

He said the house had just recently sold.

According to Everett, the quiet teen showed signs of unusual behavior after high school and during his brief college experience at a Canadian university.

“Something dramatic must have happened to him or something. He went off his rocker a bit, and he was in the Nova Scotia hospital for mental reasons for awhile. I guess he got some kind of treatment or something,” he said.

He was still shocked when the Press-Republican informed him of the allegations against his former neighbor Wednesday morning.

“But I guess you just never know about these things. There’s all kinds of strange people in the world, but with him, I could see this happening.

“He was strange,” Everett said quietly as he recalled the man now accused of a three-person international murdering rampage. “I just can’t believe it.”

For Manor’s family, Race’s arrest was a bittersweet end to five days of unanswered questions. Now they await details on the newest developments.

“It sounds like they’re still piecing it all together, and we were surprised to hear,” Manor’s uncle Dennis Phillips said Wednesday. “It’s a bizarre tale that’s just beginning to unfold.”

E-mail Andrea VanValkenburg at: