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October 25, 2014
A former neighbor of murder victim Anthony Guglielmo told detectives that he accidentally stabbed the Port Chester man when he broke into his house to get money after a night of boozing and drug use, The Journal News has learned.
Jahkim McGhee, 20, pleaded not guilty Thursday after an indictment was unsealed in Westchester County Court charging him with second-degree murder in the Sept. 11, 2011 slaying.
The indictment was a surprising twist in the case — police said at the time of the killing that Guglielmo’s teenage daughter, Nicole, was a suspect.
A fingerprint discovered on a side window of Guglielmo’s Mortimer Street home was later matched to McGhee, authorities said. That led detectives to interview him this summer at an upstate prison, where he was being held on a grand larceny charge.
McGhee initially denied any involvement but then admitted climbing through the window and stabbing Guglielmo as he slept, according to court documents.
McGhee lived on Locust Street, across the street from the Guglielmos’ previous home.
He told detectives he sneaked out of his house early that morning and bought cocaine in Columbus Park. After snorting the cocaine and drinking cognac and rum, he began heading home but started thinking about needing more money. As he passed the Guglielmo’s house he decided to break in. Once inside, he grabbed a kitchen knife “to use it for protection just in case.”
While in the living room he thought about what he was doing and got scared.
“But instead of stopping I walk (sic) into the bedroom and I accidentally stabbed Tony in his heart,” McGhee wrote. “He didn’t die right away. He woke up kicking and screaming and I got scared and ran home.”
The girl, then 14, called 911 at 5:25 a.m. that day and reported that a man had broken into their Mortimer Street home and stabbed her father. When police arrived, they found Anthony Guglielmo dead in a pool of blood in his bedroom.
Police said in 2011 that they suspected Guglielmo, 54, had been stabbed sometime between 1:30 and 3:30 a.m., or at least a few hours before the girl called police. But McGhee said the stabbing occurred at about 4:30.
“Nicole Guglielmo was prematurely and unfairly labeled a suspect and has had to live with that for three years of her life,” said one of her lawyers, John D’Alessandro. “She and we are grateful to (assistant district attorneys) John O’Rourke and Perry Perrone for not having tunnel vision and seeing that justice was done in this case.”
Her other lawyer, Andrew Quinn, was in the courtroom for McGhee’s arraignment. Afterwards, he said she had been through a “tremendous hardship”, including cyberbullying and having to leave two schools because people were calling her a murderer.
Nicole Guglielmo had not spoken with detectives for more than two years because she had been treated as a suspect. This summer, convinced the investigation was going in a different direction, her lawyers let her be interviewed again.
McGhee, who was also charged with first-degree burglary and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, faces up to 25 years to life in prison on the murder charge. He is due back in court on Nov. 6.
