The 20-year-old man who confessed to murdering Queens jogger Karina Vetrano once admitted to a teacher’s aide in high school that he wanted to knife his female classmates, police sources told The Post on Monday.
“I want to stab all the girls,’’ Chanel Lewis told the worker on May 17, 2011, according to sources.
“Kids would hit him all the time,” a current student told The Post. “The girls would even bully, ridicule and punch him. He didn’t have any friends.”
Another said, “Sometimes he fought back, but not much.”
Elias Gabriel, 18, who rode the bus with Lewis at the school, said, “I know a lot of people made fun of him, for the way he dressed and the way he looked. They called him an African lizard. He would kind of smirk and walk away.”
The students said they were shocked that Lewis was charged in the Aug. 2 murder of Vetrano, who was killed while jogging on a path in Spring Creek Park.
“No one knew him to be violent or belligerent,” Gabriel said. “He used to walk around school with his hoodie on all the time.”
After hearing of his arrest, “I was like, ‘Chanel? Quiet Chanel?’ I was surprised,’’ Gabriel said.
Another student, Danielle Muniz, 17, described Chanel as a “smart kid” with good grades.
“He liked showing me funny videos on the bus about people making jokes,” she recalled. “He was never violent here.”
“I want to stab all the girls,’’ Chanel Lewis told the worker on May 17, 2011, according to sources.
“Kids would hit him all the time,” a current student told The Post. “The girls would even bully, ridicule and punch him. He didn’t have any friends.”
Another said, “Sometimes he fought back, but not much.”
Elias Gabriel, 18, who rode the bus with Lewis at the school, said, “I know a lot of people made fun of him, for the way he dressed and the way he looked. They called him an African lizard. He would kind of smirk and walk away.”
The students said they were shocked that Lewis was charged in the Aug. 2 murder of Vetrano, who was killed while jogging on a path in Spring Creek Park.
“No one knew him to be violent or belligerent,” Gabriel said. “He used to walk around school with his hoodie on all the time.”
After hearing of his arrest, “I was like, ‘Chanel? Quiet Chanel?’ I was surprised,’’ Gabriel said.
Another student, Danielle Muniz, 17, described Chanel as a “smart kid” with good grades.
“He liked showing me funny videos on the bus about people making jokes,” she recalled. “He was never violent here.”
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