Deadly run-in
Rachel son busted in bandit slay
THE TROUBLED son of Rachel Noerdlinger, a former aide to Mayor de Blasio’s wife, was charged with aggravated manslaughter Monday after stabbing a teen who was robbing him, authorities said.
Khari Noerdlinger, 19, fatally stabbed the 16-year-old boy in the femoral artery while fighting off several people who were mugging him in Edgewater, N.J., around the corner from Noerdlinger’s home, said acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir Grewal.
A group of people accosted Noerdlinger and tried to rob him on Old River Road around 10:30 p.m. Sunday, Grewal said. The attack ended with Savion Lewallen mortally injured.
Noerdlinger was being held on $500,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with aggravated manslaughter, weapons possession and resisting arrest. His devastated mother could not be reached for comment.
Lewallen was rushed to Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, where he died several hours later.
Lewallen was recently released from the Rockland County Jail, where he was being held on charges that he assaulted and held a 15-year-old high school girl against her will.
“I am broken,” the teen’s emotional father wrote on Facebook.
“How can I bury my son before me, Lord plz bury us together, take me now Lord,” Conrad Lewallen pleaded.
Friends of the teen posted equally grief-stricken goodbyes.
“I miss you lil’ bro,” a user named Jah Tyb Bango wrote.
Wendell Floyd, 18, who said he was Lewallen’s cousin, said the shell-shocked family was gathering in their Spring Valley, Rockland County, home.
“We grew up together. He was a good kid, cared about others,” Floyd said of the aspiring rapper.
Noerdlinger and four of his alleged attackers — Kevensky Lubin, 28, Richard Jean-Pierre, 18, Calim Gaspard, 23, and Mirleny Tremols, 33 — were arrested. The four, all from Rockland County, were hit with various armed robbery and conspiracy charges.
Noerdlinger took steps to remove evidence from the tragic scene, prosecutors said.
His lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, said he hadn’t been allowed to speak to his client, and he was given no more information than what the prosecutor issued in a press release Monday night.
Lichtman said Noerdlinger was arrested Monday morning at his home by cops who initially said they wanted to question him, his mother and his mother’s excon boyfriend.
“We’re disappointed that he was charged with such a serious crime, and he was the victim of a crime, of armed robbery,” Lichtman said. “He fought back, and for that he was rewarded with a manslaughter charge.”
Lichtman said there was no resistance when Noerdlinger was arrested at 9:30 a.m., and his mom was “deeply upset.”
Mother and son made headlines when a string of mishaps forced her to resign her $170,000-a-year job as First Lady Chirlane McCray’s chief of staff.
Noerdlinger was his mom’s official excuse for not meeting a city residency requirement. She said he had been injured in a car crash, despite playing football for his high school team.
Mayor de Blasio and the First Lady, in Iowa stumping for Hillary Clinton, sent condolences.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the family that has lost their son, and with everyone affected by this tragedy,” the couple said.
Noerdlinger and his mother’s boyfriend, Hassaun McFarlan — who was convicted in a 1993 homicide — have ranted online against cops. The teen once tweeted: “Pigs always killing people” and was also arrested in 2014 on a trespassing charge.
Rachel Noerdlinger, who works at Mercury Public Relations, is also the longtime spokeswoman of the Rev. Al Sharpton.