Detectives charged an alleged crook with murdering a Manhattan man inside his apartment on Wednesday.
Alex Ray Scott, 24, originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was booked Friday for murder, grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property in connection with the Jan. 29 death of Kenneth Savinski, 64, of the Upper East Side.
A source familiar with the investigation said Scott turned himself into the Midtown North Precinct. As of Friday morning, he was being held at the 19th Precinct, pending his arraignment.
Police found Savinski at 5:20 p.m. on Jan. 29 unconscious and unresponsive with a head wound in the living room of his first-floor apartment on East 83rd Street between Lexington and Park Avenues.
Responding paramedics pronounced Savinski dead at the scene, and police later declared his death a homicide. A preliminary investigation indicated that his head wound appeared to be the result of blunt force trauma.
According to a search, Scott was arrested in Oklahoma in 2018 for lewd molestation. A law enforcement source in New York reported that Scott had no prior arrests in our city.
