Family members who obtained restraining orders against him in 2015 and 2016 wrote in court records that Krohn had an ongoing problem with alcohol abuse. After he was evicted from his mother's Fort Lauderdale home in 2009, his siblings filed court documents stating that he had threatened to burn down the house and "terrorized" them and neighbors for years. One sister obtained a restraining order after she said he repeatedly showed up at the Fort Lauderdale house, got in a scuffle and pulled a knife on a family friend, then defecated in the driveway before leaving.