Jurors Friday watched as the accused murderer of a Brooklyn landlord calmly confessed in a video recording to being terrified after learning the man had died.
“That’s when I was scared s–tless because this wasn’t supposed to happen,” Kendel Felix quietly said on the video dated April 30, 2014, more than three months after Menachem “Max” Stark’s body was found in a Long Island Dumpster.
In the confession played in Brooklyn Supreme Court, Felix said the idea to rob Stark originated with his cousin Erskine Felix.
“[Erskine] said [Stark] owed him money,” Kendel said in the video. “He’s like, ‘. . . We’re going to get him and we’re going to get him to give us some money.’ ”
Kendel also claimed he had no part in grabbing Stark in January 2014 as he left his Williamsburg home.
Prosecutor Ken Taub, who had conducted the interview, said Friday that he believed Kendel was trying to “minimize” his role.