14 Feb '11 06:56>3 edits
Maybe we should outlaw knives now? Or better yet, what if New Yorkers were allowed to carry firearms this would not have happened ?
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/brooklyn_son_goes_on_killer_rampage_Y6MLOc4zE0uI3rgagp1RJM#ixzz1DuhbQpUS
A knife-wielding madman went on a wild killing spree that spilled blood across Brooklyn after he flew into a rage because his stepfather refused to let him drive the family Lexus, authorities said.
Maksim Gelman, a 23-year-old druggie and "street punk," allegedly stabbed his 54-year-old stepdad to death in the early-morning hours yesterday in their Sheepshead Bay apartment and sped off in the luxury car.
He resurfaced 12 hours later to kill his ex-girlfriend and her mom, before stabbing another man in a carjacking and running over a pedestrian as he made his getaway, sources said.
[i]Gelman remained at large as the NYPD waged a massive manhunt.
He stunningly resurfaced in the early morning hours today and committed two more attacks, sources and witnesses said. Shortly before 12:55 a.m. he tried to carjack a livery cab, stabbed the driver but failing to get the car. Moments later he carjacked a Nissan Maxima, stabbing the driver and getting away with the car.
The rampage began at around 5 a.m. at his family's Waterville Village Condo on East 27th Street and Emmons Avenue. He woke up his mother, Svetlana, to demand the keys to the family's 2004 Lexus, police sources said.
His 6-foot-3, 280-pound stepfather, Alexsandr Kuznetsov, 54, refused to hand them over and the two screamed at each other. Gelman's mother told cops he appeared high.
*After shouting for two minutes, Gelman allegedly pulled a kitchen knife and stabbed his stepdad, a private-ambulette driver, the sources said. He then took off in his mother's Lexus.
*Later in the day, Gelman turned up at the home of his ex-girlfriend, Yelena Bulchenko, 20, just three blocks away on East 24th Street and Avenue Y. He allegedly stormed inside and hacked her mother, Anna, 56, to death, sources said.
*Yelena arrived home to find the bloodbath at around 4:20 p.m. She called 911 and ran outside to wait for police.
Expecting help to arrive, she was instead ambushed by Gelman, who allegedly burst from an alley and gutted her with a knife.
With the body count rising, Gelman jumped back into his mom's Lexus and tried to make his getaway down East 24th Street. But as he approached Avenue U, his path was blocked by a double-parked Pontiac Bonneville driven by Arthur DiCrescento, 60.
*Gelman ditched his Lexus and carjacked DiCrescento, stabbing him three times in the chest and throwing him to the pavement, sources said.
"He had to cut Arty first. Because Arty is 300 pounds, he couldn't have just dragged him out of the car," said Barbara Parry, a neighbor of the victim, who suffered non-life-threatening wounds.[/i]
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/brooklyn_son_goes_on_killer_rampage_Y6MLOc4zE0uI3rgagp1RJM#ixzz1DuhbQpUS