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01-10-2005, 05:04 PM
By SAMUEL MAULL
Associated Press Writer
January 10, 2005, 5:33 PM EST
NEW YORK -- A homeless killer, imprisoned 30 years ago for a fatal stabbing, was jailed on $2 million bail Monday after his arraignment on charges of stabbing a man in Times Square and two other people in Pennsylvania Station last week.
Jesse Nettles, 58, was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges of attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon. Judge A. Kirke Bartley set Nettles' next court date for Friday.
Assistant District Attorney Gerard Murphy told the judge that Nettles, living at the Bellevue Men's Shelter on the East Side, is a suspect in five knife attacks and admitted to four of them in writing and on videotape.
Murphy said the five cases will go to the grand jury for possible indictment. He also told the judge that four of the victims were strangers to Nettles and he stabbed them without apparent motive.
Nettle's attorney, Philip Rauch, said he would reserve his bail application until the indictment is handed up.
Nettles stabbed a 31-year-old Hicksville man in the T.G.I. Friday's bar on the concourse in Penn Station around 10:45 p.m. Thursday, Murphy said. The man was hospitalized with a lacerated liver.
On Saturday, Nettles allegedly stabbed four people, including an acquaintance, whom he knifed around 6:15 p.m., Murphy said. He did not discuss the victim or a motive for that alleged assault.
Another victim was a 28-year-old man pushing a stroller on Broadway with his children, ages 5 and 1, around 7 p.m. He was stabbed in the neck, Murphy said. He said that besides the neck wound, the man suffered a collapsed lung.
Around 9:40 p.m. Saturday, Murphy said, Nettles returned to the T.G.I. Friday's in Penn Station. He said Nettles knifed an employee in the chest without apparent motive and stabbed a woman who was in his path when he was running out.
Two Metropolitan Transportation Authority police officers grabbed Nettles as he tried to pass through the turnstiles to enter a subway station and recovered his knife, Murphy said.
The prosecutor said two victims identified Nettles after his arrest.
Nettles served more than 12 years in prison for fatally stabbing a 21-year-old man from Camden, N.J., in a men's room in the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan.
Murphy told the judge that Nettles admitted he killed the man.
The prosecutor said Nettles also has pending misdemeanor cases in Brooklyn.
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Associated Press Writer
January 10, 2005, 5:33 PM EST
NEW YORK -- A homeless killer, imprisoned 30 years ago for a fatal stabbing, was jailed on $2 million bail Monday after his arraignment on charges of stabbing a man in Times Square and two other people in Pennsylvania Station last week.
Jesse Nettles, 58, was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges of attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon. Judge A. Kirke Bartley set Nettles' next court date for Friday.
Assistant District Attorney Gerard Murphy told the judge that Nettles, living at the Bellevue Men's Shelter on the East Side, is a suspect in five knife attacks and admitted to four of them in writing and on videotape.
Murphy said the five cases will go to the grand jury for possible indictment. He also told the judge that four of the victims were strangers to Nettles and he stabbed them without apparent motive.
Nettle's attorney, Philip Rauch, said he would reserve his bail application until the indictment is handed up.
Nettles stabbed a 31-year-old Hicksville man in the T.G.I. Friday's bar on the concourse in Penn Station around 10:45 p.m. Thursday, Murphy said. The man was hospitalized with a lacerated liver.
On Saturday, Nettles allegedly stabbed four people, including an acquaintance, whom he knifed around 6:15 p.m., Murphy said. He did not discuss the victim or a motive for that alleged assault.
Another victim was a 28-year-old man pushing a stroller on Broadway with his children, ages 5 and 1, around 7 p.m. He was stabbed in the neck, Murphy said. He said that besides the neck wound, the man suffered a collapsed lung.
Around 9:40 p.m. Saturday, Murphy said, Nettles returned to the T.G.I. Friday's in Penn Station. He said Nettles knifed an employee in the chest without apparent motive and stabbed a woman who was in his path when he was running out.
Two Metropolitan Transportation Authority police officers grabbed Nettles as he tried to pass through the turnstiles to enter a subway station and recovered his knife, Murphy said.
The prosecutor said two victims identified Nettles after his arrest.
Nettles served more than 12 years in prison for fatally stabbing a 21-year-old man from Camden, N.J., in a men's room in the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan.
Murphy told the judge that Nettles admitted he killed the man.
The prosecutor said Nettles also has pending misdemeanor cases in Brooklyn.
Copyright © 2005, The Associated Press
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