TheMorningStar
August 8th, 2008, 11:14 AM
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A Times Square club worker confessed to bludgeoning a drunken Queens woman and stuffing her body in a rooftop shed during a star-studded birthday party for rapper Lil' Kim, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Thursday.
Sayed Rahman told cops he lured Ingrid (China) Rivera, 24, to the roof of the Spotlight Live club, where he may have sexually assaulted her before smashing her head in with a pipe.
"It hurts so much to lose her," Rivera's friend, Sasha Castillo, told the Daily News. "I can't believe he killed her."
Rahman, who stocked the bar and carried ice, told investigators he targeted Rivera because she looked drunk after being kicked out of the club, which was packed with rap stars like Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes and Wyclef Jean.
Promising that he could get her back into the glitzy karaoke joint, Rahman led her to a freight elevator and whisked her to the VIP "Penthouse" room on the roof, sources said.
Up on the roof, Rahman, 24, may have tried to rape or rob Rivera, Kelly said.
Rahman, who is about 5-feet-4, apparently snapped when Rivera resisted and used a metal pipe to bash her twice in the back of the head. Then he jammed her lifeless body into a rooftop electrical room.
He was charged with second-degree murder.
A broken bottle of Champagne was found near her body and walls were splattered with Rivera's blood.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/08/07/2008-08-07_barback_admits_luring_victim_to_times_sq.html
This guy tried the same thing with one of her friends.
The women brought flowers for the bad-girl rapper and unknowingly handed them to Rahman early in the night.
Hours later, Rivera, who had been drinking, tried to retrieve the flowers but inadvertently walked into the club's men's room, Kelly said.
A manager threw Rivera out. Castillo said Rahman then offered to show her a way they could sneak Rivera back in.
"He promised we could help her but instead he took me to the roof and groped me," said Castillo, her voice trembling. "I told him to 'f--- off!' and then ran downstairs."
Castillo said when she was able to leave the club a short time later, she couldn't find her friend.
A Times Square club worker confessed to bludgeoning a drunken Queens woman and stuffing her body in a rooftop shed during a star-studded birthday party for rapper Lil' Kim, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Thursday.
Sayed Rahman told cops he lured Ingrid (China) Rivera, 24, to the roof of the Spotlight Live club, where he may have sexually assaulted her before smashing her head in with a pipe.
"It hurts so much to lose her," Rivera's friend, Sasha Castillo, told the Daily News. "I can't believe he killed her."
Rahman, who stocked the bar and carried ice, told investigators he targeted Rivera because she looked drunk after being kicked out of the club, which was packed with rap stars like Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes and Wyclef Jean.
Promising that he could get her back into the glitzy karaoke joint, Rahman led her to a freight elevator and whisked her to the VIP "Penthouse" room on the roof, sources said.
Up on the roof, Rahman, 24, may have tried to rape or rob Rivera, Kelly said.
Rahman, who is about 5-feet-4, apparently snapped when Rivera resisted and used a metal pipe to bash her twice in the back of the head. Then he jammed her lifeless body into a rooftop electrical room.
He was charged with second-degree murder.
A broken bottle of Champagne was found near her body and walls were splattered with Rivera's blood.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/08/07/2008-08-07_barback_admits_luring_victim_to_times_sq.html
This guy tried the same thing with one of her friends.
The women brought flowers for the bad-girl rapper and unknowingly handed them to Rahman early in the night.
Hours later, Rivera, who had been drinking, tried to retrieve the flowers but inadvertently walked into the club's men's room, Kelly said.
A manager threw Rivera out. Castillo said Rahman then offered to show her a way they could sneak Rivera back in.
"He promised we could help her but instead he took me to the roof and groped me," said Castillo, her voice trembling. "I told him to 'f--- off!' and then ran downstairs."
Castillo said when she was able to leave the club a short time later, she couldn't find her friend.