“I killed Rita.”
As cops arrested him, the ex-boyfriend of a beautiful Borough of Manhattan Community College College student admitted to leaving her slashed to death on her new boyfriend’s bed — announcing, “I killed Rita” — according to a one-sentence excerpt from his confession made public today.
The chilling admission to the slaying of Rita Morelli, 36, was released today as the crazed Bronx man, Bakary Camara, 41, pleaded not guilty to murder from his hospital bed in Bellevue.
Camara, a citizen of Senegal in Africa, has remained hospitalized since his dramatic arrest three weeks ago. Camara stabbed himself in the stomach when cops came to his Bronx apartment a week after the murder.
He also directed cops to a rambling note in which he detailed a failed relationship with Morelli and blamed the slaying on his having suffered a voodoo curse, officials said.
A Manhattan Supreme Court judge today ordered Camara undergo a psychiatric exam, as requested by his lawyer, Seema Iyer.
Cops had tracked him down by an anonymous 911 call he’d made the day of the murder, reporting “a dead body” at her 120th Street address.