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Music & Art Tragedy! Karyn Kay murdered!
Son Henry Wachtel charged in pummeling death of his mom, police say
Son Henry Wachtel charged in pummeling death of his mom, police say
Karyn Kay made desperate 911 call, saying her son was having a seizure and
was beating her
The teenage son of a 63-year-old English teacher and author was charged
with murder Tuesday night for pummeling her to death with his fists, police
said.
Karyn Kay died Tuesday just hours after she made a desperate 911 call to tell cops her son was hitting her in their Manhattan apartment, police sources said.
Kay was screaming when she told the 911 operator the 19-year-old Henry Wachtel was having a seizure when he started beating her, a police source said.
Karyn Kay died Tuesday just hours after she made a desperate 911 call to tell cops her son was hitting her in their Manhattan apartment, police sources said.
Kay was screaming when she told the 911 operator the 19-year-old Henry Wachtel was having a seizure when he started beating her, a police source said.
Cops rushed to the Hell’s Kitchen building on W. 55th Street at Eighth
Avenue just before 9:30 a.m., police said, and found a badly beaten Kay face-up
and unconscious on the living room floor.
Neighbors said they were alerted to
the horror by shouting.
One said he could hear the son. “He was screaming, ‘I’m sorry mommy! I’m sorry mommy!’ over and over and over,” said one neighbor who lives three doors down from Kay’s 10th-floor flat.
One said he could hear the son. “He was screaming, ‘I’m sorry mommy! I’m sorry mommy!’ over and over and over,” said one neighbor who lives three doors down from Kay’s 10th-floor flat.
“Then suddenly it all stopped.”
When police arrived, they found Wachtel there - covered in his mother’s blood - when cops arrived, police sources said.
His clothes were being analyzed as he was being questioned at the Midtown North Precinct stationhouse Tuesday evening, the sources added.
Kay was taken with severe trauma -- including a fractured skull and eye socket and broken ribs - to Cornell Hospital where she died at 1:52 p.m., police sources said.
When police arrived, they found Wachtel there - covered in his mother’s blood - when cops arrived, police sources said.
His clothes were being analyzed as he was being questioned at the Midtown North Precinct stationhouse Tuesday evening, the sources added.
Kay was taken with severe trauma -- including a fractured skull and eye socket and broken ribs - to Cornell Hospital where she died at 1:52 p.m., police sources said.
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There was no indication Wachtel used a weapon in the deadly attack, police
said.
“The police took him in handcuffs. He kept apologizing to his mother
the whole time - he kept saying, ‘I didn’t mean it,” neighbor Jonathan Cohen,
49, said the building’s doorman told him.
“He was extremely upset, wailing and crying,” said another neighbor. “When they took Karyn out on a stretcher, she wasn’t moving and her face was covered up with cloth,” he added.
Kay, who works as a teacher at La Guardia High School and is listed as a visiting instructor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, lived with her son for more than five years wrote and produced “Call Me”, a feature film that won awards for screenwriting, a Pratt Institute spokesman said.
“This woman had so much
faith in each and every one of her students,” said former pupil Jelani Cornick.
“She never gave up on us...She took her time out to help me because she
cared.”La Guardia High School senior Alessandra Rao said Kay helped assemble the
annual “Lively Arts” magazine at the school that celebrates and showcases
students’ poems, short stories and artwork.
“He was extremely upset, wailing and crying,” said another neighbor. “When they took Karyn out on a stretcher, she wasn’t moving and her face was covered up with cloth,” he added.
Kay, who works as a teacher at La Guardia High School and is listed as a visiting instructor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, lived with her son for more than five years wrote and produced “Call Me”, a feature film that won awards for screenwriting, a Pratt Institute spokesman said.
“She was a beautiful woman inside and out,” Rao said. “Ms. Kay believed in
all of us--she found beauty in so many of our pieces, and truly made each one of
us feel special.”
Our hearts our Heavy right now for us former students of hers while attending
M&A. We send out our prayers and condolences to her family!
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