Kidd Creole believed man he stabbed was making a sexual advance on him
A founding member of the seminal hip-hop group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five fatally stabbed a 55-year-old homeless man in the chest because he thought the man was making a sexual advance, prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney’s office said Thursday.
Nathaniel Glover, 57, who performed under the name Kidd Creole, was charged with second-degree murder and was ordered held without bail in the death of the man, who was identified by the police as John Jolly.
Mark Dahl, an assistant district attorney, said the encounter between the two men was captured on surveillance video and began as Mr. Glover was headed to work in Midtown.
Mr. Glover walked past Mr. Jolly, who said: “What’s up?”
Mr. Dahl said that Mr. Glover said he had taken the statement as an indication that Mr. Jolly believed he was gay and was making an aggressive pass at him. Mr. Dahl said that Mr. Glover had claimed that the statement was delivered in a threatening fashion.
In response, Mr. Glover loosened a steak knife he was carrying concealed in his sleeve — attached to his left wrist with rubber bands — and stabbed the victim twice, Mr. Dahl said.
Robert K. Boyce, the chief of detectives, said during a news conference that Mr. Jolly had been stabbed once below the sternum and once elsewhere in his chest.
After the episode, Mr. Glover continued on to his workplace, where he washed off the knife and wiped it down with a paper towel, Mr. Dahl said.