A former Marine has confessed to killing two cabbies, a Bronx prosecutor said yesterday.
Roberto Mayen, 26, of Woodbridge, Va., was held without bail on murder, manslaughter and weapons possession charges after Assistant DA Daniel McCarthy told Judge Harold Adler that he “has admitted to both murders.”
Mayen’s alleged shooting spree took place Oct. 19 when the Washington-area sniper was shooting random victims and raised fears the Bronx murders were copy-cat killings.
Cops said the one-man crime wave began when Mayen carjacked a silver Audi outside a Fort Lee, N.J., store.
He drove it to the Soundview section of The Bronx, where he fired eight shots at his first victim, José Robles, who was sitting in a parked livery cab, police said.
He then drove to the Castle Hill section and allegedly used the same 9 mm pistol to gun down Kleber Valencia, a taxi driver who was waiting for a ride to his daughter’s baptism.