28652: Hermantin(News)Man says Snub Led to NYC Stabbings es (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: leonie hermantin <lhermantin@hotmail.com>

Man Says Snub Led to NYC Stabbings




By TOM HAYS
Associated Press Writer

July 17, 2006, 11:09 PM EDT



NEW YORK -- A man accused of stabbing two tourists walking in Manhattan's 
theater district told investigators he was angry because they snubbed him when 
he tried to talk to them, according to a police report.

"Yeah, those white girls. ... They don't want to talk to anybody, so I went 
after them," Kenny Alexis told investigators, according to the report made 
public Monday at his arraignment.

Alexis, 20, a Haitian in this country on a student visa, pleaded not guilty 
Monday to attempted murder and assault on the two Canadian tourists and two 
other victims during a 13-hour rampage last month. He was being held without 
bail pending the results of psychiatric tests to determine if he is fit to 
stand trial.

Defense attorney Candace Kurtz would not comment. She has said she believes 
Alexis was mentally ill.

Alexis told investigators that while riding a subway June 13 he noticed a man 
looking at him and sensed the man was "out to get him," the report said. The 
report said Alexis admitted stabbing him.

About 12 hours later, he stabbed a New York resident on a subway station 
platform because he "felt threatened," the report said.

A short time after that, he approached the two Canadians. The defendant "was 
upset that they wouldn't talk to him so he quickly followed behind them" and 
stabbed each in the back, the report said.
Copyright © 2006, The Associated Press