Stark's killer: "We sat on him and he died" • Family: "They feel relief""

May 1, 2014   

Menachem Stark's brothers speak: Members of the Stark family expressed relief today (Thursday) after the indictment was filed in court against their brother's murderer.

The deceased's brothers said that if they had known from the start that it was a simple robbery, the fight would have been much easier.

""For many months they tried to defame my brother, supposedly he was involved in dubious businesses belonging to the underworld, but now it turns out that this was all just a robbery," said Itzi, the brother of the late Menachem.

Another brother of Stark, who asked not to be identified by name, said that his brother's attackers knew that he came to the construction site every day, and for a period of time they followed him, until they decided to carry out their plot there. According to him, "The New York Police Department suspected the contractor who sent the assassins after the murder, but wanted to wait until the case was complete.".

The suspect confesses

 Kendall Felix, 26, who worked as a construction worker - through a contractor - for the late Haredi businessman Menachem Stark, was brought before a judge who read to him the offense he is accused of - second-degree murder.

Felix, whose detention was extended by 4 days, arrived at the courthouse wearing a black coat. He did not utter a word during the hearing.

During his police interrogation, Kendall, a Caribbean citizen and resident of the Crown Heights neighborhood, admitted that the plan was to commit a robbery, but that he did not intend to kill Stark. He said that he and his two accomplices accidentally choked him to death during the robbery, after "things got complicated." He said that Stark kicked and screamed, and when the kidnappers tried to take control of him, he sat on top of him, resulting in Stark choking to death.

He also said that he and his friends had planned to dump Stark's body off Long Island, but the heavy snow that fell that evening prevented them from carrying out their plan, and they decided to burn his body and throw it in a trash can. Kendall and another friend drove to a gas station, purchased a can of gasoline, and poured the substance over Stark's body, set it on fire, and threw it in a nearby trash can. Abduction from the office כזכור, ביום חמישי ה-1 לינואר, נחטף מנחם שטארק ז"ל על-ידי אלמונים בעת שיצא ממשרדו בשכונת ויליאמסבורג. רעייתו שראתה כי הוא בושש מלחזור הביתה, הזעיקה את מתנדבי השומרים והמשטרה, שפתחו בסריקות נרחבות אחריו. לאחר שבוע מצאה המשטרה את גופתו, כשהיא חרוכה וחבולה בפח זבל בלונג איילנד. אמש נודע כי המשטרה עצרה שבעה אנשים בחשד למעורבות ברצח והיא מחפשת אחרי אדם אחד נוסף - הקבלן שעבד אצל שטארק וקשר קשר עם פועליו, מתוך כוונה לשדוד אותו.