By Shayna Jacobs and Tom Liddy
DNAinfo Staff
MANHATTAN — An unhinged Brooklyn man who went on a 28-hour stabbing rampage in Brooklyn and Manhattan pleaded guilty Wednesday to the horrific spate of violence, prosecutors said.
Maksim Gelman, 24, copped to killing four people and wounding four others during the Feb. 12 rampage which ended when on an uptown No. 3 train where he slashed a straphanger between West 34th and West 42nd streets before being subdued.
Gelman admittedly murdered his 20-year-old ex-girlfriend Yalena Bulchenko who he had reportedly been stalking, her mother Anna Bulchenko, his stepfather Alexander Kuznetsov and Steven Tannenbaum, a pedestrian he ran down with the car he'd stolen from Kuznetsov, all of which occurred in Brooklyn.
He also said he stabbed a victim of a random carjacking in Brooklyn and repeatedly slashed Lincoln Center employee Joseph Lozito aboard the train in Manhattan, prosecutors say.
In bizarre statements made to police after his arrest at the subway station, Gelman told police he "did this because I have cancer" and noted "I've had a doozy of a day."
Neither the judge nor Brooklyn prosecutors offered Gelman a break in exchange for his guilty plea. He is expected to be sentenced on Jan. 11.
The case involving the Times Square train stabbing is still open in Manhattan Supreme Court and Gelman is due to appear there the week after his January sentencing.
