A 24-year-old man from Brooklyn was reportedly stunned today when he discovered that his girlfriend may have lied about being raped by a man he subsequently murdered in retaliation.
New York Daily News quotes Christopher Membreno as stating, during a jailhouse interview at Rikers Island, “I threw my life away for a f*cking lie? My life is over because of a f*cking lie.”
According to The New York Post, the police believe the victim, a 20-year-old man named Manos Ikonomidis and another were involved in a consensual threesome with Membreno’s girlfriend.
Police state that everything was going well until one of the men tried to film the threesome.
At that point, she allegedly became irate and left. When she arrived at home, she allegedly contacted Membreno and told him she had been raped.
Shortly after, Membreno and two other men showed up at the apartment Ikonomidis was in and proceeded to bludgeon him with baseball bats and stab him multiple times.
According to New York Daily News, the men then left him to die. However, he was able to knock on a resident’s door and when she opened it, he allegedly collapsed.
“He fell into her house,” the outlet quotes a relative of the resident as saying. “He was apologizing, ‘I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry.’ He says, ‘they hit me in the head, they hit my head with a bat.’ She said there was so much blood gushing out of him.”
Ikonomidis died in hospital minutes later.
Membreno was full of questions for his girlfriend on finding out that she had lied about the rape.
“I deserve to know the truth. This is my life now. I can’t do it anymore. I really don’t know what I have to live for.”
Membreno, charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, reportedly added, “I still love her even though she set me up. I don’t know why I still love her. I just want some answers.”