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By Jack Nichols
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Hempstead, New York--A Hofstra University banking and finance major, Shaun T.Alexander, 23, was arrested Wednesday following the grisly April 25 murder of film and communications major, Max B. Kolb, 20. Alexander has reportedly confessed to having had his sexual advances rejected by Kolb in a Hicksville Econolodge that is close to the university.
The New York Times quotes police saying Alexander "used a kitchen knife to stab and partly dismember Mr. Kolb." |
Hofstra Students: Dealing with the brutal slaying |
He reportedly buried Kolb's body behind a backyard barbecue at a site whereon he'd rented an apartment facing the Atlantic Ocean. Kolb's partly-dismembered body had been found wrapped in plastic bags and was lying in a shallow grave.
The murder, likely to be used in its propaganda war, may soon find the religious fundamentalist media crowing: 'Straight student murdered by lust-driven gay," as if no deranged heterosexual male had ever killed a woman who'd simply scorned his amorous advances.
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Involving a well-known educational institution and peopled with well-to-do-suburban protagonists, this tragic story, reported at length in the Times is likely, in the language of some journalists, "to have legs."
The approximately 13,000 Hofstra University attendees, according to observers, are deeply disturbed about the murder. News cameras rolled onto the campus, capturing an atmosphere of turmoil and concern.
The last time Max Kolb was observed was when he left his own 10th floor quarters, caught on film by a security camera at the Estabrook Hall dormitory (1:30 a.m.) where he lived by himself. Evidence also is said to show that his exit was occasioned only moments after Mr. Alexander's cell phone was used from his red 2000 Land Rover, reaching Kolb in his room.
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Thereafter, Max Kolb failed to attend classes.
An anonymous tip led police to Shaun Alexander who'd last been seen with his murdered fellow student. His Land Rover was seized and searched. Shortly thereafter, New York prosecutors say, Alexander told where the body could be found.
An official in the Nassau district attorney's office suggested that Alexander may have committed other murders, noting that he'd been "very methodical and violent" for a first-time offender.
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