By Olivia Scheck
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — A mental patient accused of killing a Manhattan psychologist with a meat clever in her Upper East Side office said he was sorry in a video-taped statement played in Manhattan court on Wednesday.
"I'm sorry for that woman. I didn't know she was going to be there," David Tarloff, 42, said during the interrigation video, the Daily News reported.
Tarloff confessed to the 2008 murder of psychologist Kathryn Faughey on the tape, but he also claimed he believed his own life was in danger at that time, according to a New York Times.
“I thought she was going to kill me. I just — I didn’t know what to do, I — everything happened fast,” Tarloff told interrogators, according to the paper.
In the tape, Tarloff explained to police that he was planning to rob his former psychiatrist, Dr. Kent Shinbach, Faughey's office mate on E. 79th Street, when he came upon his victim, the Times said.
"I just wanted to go in and look and she attacked me," he said, according to the News.
Shinbach was also wounded in the attack, the paper reported.
