Bouncer Stephen Sakai, who killed one patron and shot three others outside Chelsea club Opus 22 on Tuesday, was officially charged with and arraigned on that night's crimes, but police are investigating still trying to understand his connection to three other murders. Here are the murders in question, using info from the Post:
- Wayne Tyson, found stabbed to death in Brownsville on September 1The Times reports Sakai apparently confessed to killing Tyson as well as Mojica; he said was there when Matos was killed but another man stabbed him. The Manhattan DA's office called him a "stone-cold killer." He was held without bail, and his court-appointed lawyer says detectives did not let Sakai get a lawyer and will be asking that Sakai's "confessions" be thrown out. And Sakai's grandmother told the Post that Sakai changed his last name from Sanders to Sakai to sound more Japanese - Sakai loved Asian culture and martial arts.
- Irving Matos, former co-worker and potential partner of Sakai's, found shot in the head last October
- Edwin Mojica, former co-worker at Opus 22, found shot in the head in Williamsburg last November.





Since when did being a bouncer become a work-release program for killers?
In another thread someone claimed that the bouncer is japanese. Isn't he black? I doubt there a single black bouncer who is using his real name and not having an extensive criminal background.
LittleJohn had couple of names too.
Just a warning: nobody should see this as an opportunity to gloat over the previous patrons vs. bouncers thread. Gloaters will be shot - by a bouncer...
if he likes japanese culture so much, the bastard should commit seppuku.
they should do a police raid and close all the clubs on the west side, they all suck anyway.
Being a "bouncer" is one of those fringe professions.
You see all the vices so it's kinda obvious these guys had access to guns, drugs, bad guys in general.
You hang out with bad guys, you're mostly guilt by association.
same with informants, aka huggy bear.
toriaki yokusamo is absolutely right! as a matter of fact, why don't we put all black men in prison when they turn 14? After all, they're all criminals with fake names.
I was so excited when I thought the dude was japanese. I was like "YES! finally a asian dude" but no, it's black people again...... sob*
janine: Great idea. Why don't we get together tonight for a planning session?
you know I was being sarcastic, right?
I'm so sick of going to gothamist and it's always a crime and the person is always black and someone makes a snide remark. why aren't there any black people here getting angry about that?
janine: Eh, really?
los: Why is it so that it is always a black person who turns out to be the serial killer/rapist? How about getting angry about that? Especially since he was pretending to be a japanese person.
I thought serial killers were typically white men.
i think the reason why there aren't any black people getting angry on gothamist is because there are no black people that go to gothamist just because blacks are poor and they can't afford computers. That's why they are always robbing and killing and raping, it's cause they need the money to get computers.
Raping is the new Internet currency?
besides we know it's mostly white people who really whine.
from the nimby to the think about the chillin.
I'm black. Don't you have lacrosse players to defend?
those lacrosse players are GUILTY and they are WHITE!!! hahahahah. All that conclusive DNA evidence slapping you in the face. what now? racist bastards.
Is Lacrosse case best you can say? Talk about racism. Accused player has 100% alibi (ATM receipt and seen on video elsewhere during the "rape", DNA mismatch, accuser has extensive criminal background with history of false rape claims) Well, the DA won his election so things worked out quite well for him and the criminal accuser. Now the DA has postponed the trial and hopes that media attention goes away so less embarrasing to him once the charges are dropped.
Anyway, hope this is just an exception among the bouncers.
those duke players are guilty of something.
make no mistake.
they better not step foot outside campus.
durham is pretty rough.
is gothamist the new craigslist?
who the hell gives a crap about the duke case
except racists.
who the hell gives a crap about the duke case
except racists
couldn't agree more. I don't understand why janine broight that up. Well, it is not just janine who is racist and interested in duke case. Black panthers care as well. They stated that the accused must be convicted even if they didn't do it.
those duke players are guilty of something.
Being a white? Anyway, it was a stupid idea to book a black hooker who has extensive criminal record.