B’KLYN BUTCHER BUST
Cops: We got guy who cut up roommate, put him in freezer
Cops have arrested a man they say killed his 40-year-old roommate and then cut the victim up and stuffed his decapitated head and other body parts in a freezer in his Brooklyn apartment, cops said Friday.
Sporting tattoos reading “Sophia” over his right eye and the Warner Bros.”WB” logo on his neck, Nicholas McGee playfully stuck his tongue out at reporters as he was escorted from the 67th Precinct in East Flatbush Friday.
Detectives extradited McGee from Virginia, where he was in jail for identity theft when the NYPD found victim Kawsheen Gelzer’s remains inside the taped up refrigerator in his Nostrand Ave. apartment near Farragut Road.
McGee’s longtime girlfriend Heather
Stines, 45, was still living in the apartment and was arrested after the grisly Jan. 22 discovery.
Detectives charged McGee, also 45, with murder, robbery, concealment of a human corpse and tampering with physical evidence.
He was held without bail and faces a potential sentence of life behind bars, prosecutors said Friday.
Gelzer had been couch surfing at McGee’s apartment when the killing took place. Gelzer was a known drug dealer and registered sex offender convicted of sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy in 2004.
McGee may have killed Gelzer over an ongoing narcotics dispute, police said. Gelzer died from a blow to the head, cops said.
McGee stabbed Gelzer in the back as he slept in the apartment after a dispute over drugs, prosecutors said Friday. The two struggled, and McGee stabbed Gelzer multiple times and beat him with a hammer before taking drugs from the dying man’s pocket.
Later, McGee used a small saw and a hammer to dismember the body before stashing it in the refrigerator and freezer, prosecutors said.
McGee has long struggled with drug addiction and had become estranged from his three daughters, seeing little of them since 2012, said Cheyanne McGee, 24, the middle child of the three.
She said Stines manipulated McGee with drugs and would pose as him in messages asking for money all while refusing to let him hold down a job.
“I know the difference between when I’m speaking with my father and when I’m speaking with Heather,” Cheyanne said.
Stines went as far as to say that McGee was dying of cancer in an appeal for more cash.
“[Stines] is just an all-around liar. Everything she said was a lie.”
McGee’s daughter believes that Stines is party responsible for the murder, and that she may have been sleeping with Gelzer.
“Once I processed it… I was really upset. I blame Heather. She was doing something. He found out this other man was involved, and he ended up just snapping and killing him.”
Another of McGee’s daughters, who did not want to be named, also said Stines would pose as her father to ask for money.
She called Heather her “evil step mother.” Officers called to the apartment found the body parts of a 6-foot tall, 200 pound man wrapped in black plastic bags in both Stines’ refrigerator and freezer, cops said.
Gelzer’s severed head was found in the refrigerator, according to court documents.
“The refrigerator was taped up,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at a recent news briefing. “They were trying to hole up, I guess, the smell inside.”
Stines was charged with concealment of a human corpse and ordered held without bail as she awaited trial.