The man charged with a Brooklyn-to-Manhattan murder spree that started with the slaying of his mother’s boyfriend and ended with a brutal stabbing aboard a subway train boasted to a cop that he’d beat the charges because doctors would find him crazy, court papers revealed.
Maksim Gelman, who pleaded not guilty yesterday in Brooklyn Supreme Court to four counts of murder and a raft of other charges, allegedly made his assertion in February, a day after he was wrestled to the floor of a train below Times Square following his orgy of violence. “Good luck,” a cop said, as Gelman was handed over to the Department of Correction, court papers said.
“It’s OK. I’ll beat this,” Gelman allegedly said. “I’ll go to a mental hospital for a few years and then I’ll get out on the street again. You’ll see.”
Gelman allegedly went on a 28-hour rampage that included stabbing his mother’s boyfriend to death and stealing his car, mowing down and killing a pedestrian with that auto, and stabbing to death a woman he was stalking — Yelena Bulchenko — and her mother.
He also stabbed another man in a carjacking and finally, a third man on the subway in Manhattan, which led to his arrest, officials charged.
After Gelman was arrested, he also told cops his victims had to die, according to the court papers:
“Who had to die?” investigators asked. “She was a bitch,” Gelman responded.
“Why did they have to die?”
“Because I said so.”
Gelman will be held without bail until his next court appearance, on June 17.