The baby-faced Oklahoman accused of murdering an Upper East Side man he met on a dating app told cops he only realized his crime after Googling the victim, new court papers reveal.
Alex Scott, 24, who prosecutors say strangled and mutilated 64-year-old Kenneth Savinski in his apartment after the pair met on a dating app, had no memory of the bloody attack when he turned himself in to police, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday.
“I woke up this morning in a Jersey City hotel with another person’s ID and credit cards,” Scott allegedly told detectives. “I googled [Savinski’s] name and address and saw that he was killed.”
Scott, who is facing charges in his home state for sexually assaulting a 6-year-old boy, told investigators that he had been drinking “for a few days” and couldn’t remember what had happened.
“I think I killed someone,” he told officers. “I have cuts on my hands so it has to be me because that’s the only thing that makes sense.”
Scott and Savinski are seen on surveillance video walking back on the older man’s apartment on East 83rd Street near Lexington Avenue on Jan. 29, authorities said.
Inside the apartment, Scott allegedly stabbed Savinski in the face and cut his throat, severing his carotid artery, prosecutors said.
He was then spotted on camera leaving the apartment with Savinski’s watch, credit cards and cash in tow — all while wearing his alleged victim’s jacket.
In the wake of the alleged assault, Scott told investigators he couldn’t recall where he’d left his car or the name of the hotel he’d been staying at — but he did remember buying bandages for his hands, court papers say.
“He remembered various details of the rest of the day, including getting band-aids for his fingers, buying things to eat, and having conversations with other people,” the documents read.
The Tulsa native had been in New York for several months after allegedly cutting off his electronic monitoring bracelet in Oklahoma and fleeing to the Big Apple, supporting himself with “cash that he gets from men who he meets online,” prosecutors said.
Scott was indicted Wednesday on charges of first-degree murder and grand larceny and ordered held without bail.