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Bouncer denies killing grad student
YOUR E-MAIL ALERTSNEW YORK (CNN) -- A former bouncer at a Manhattan bar, who sources say has been charged with murdering graduate student Imette St. Guillen, says from jail that he did not do it. "I'm a likely suspect because I have a criminal background and I wasn't supposed to be there working," Darryl Littlejohn told television station WCBS in a jailhouse interview. He was referring to his status as a parolee, which bound him to a 9 p.m.-7 a.m. curfew. Littlejohn, 41, was working at The Falls bar, where St. Guillen was last seen alive. He is being held on a parole violation at the city jail on Riker's Island. St. Guillen, a 24-year-old criminology student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, left the bar with Littlejohn about 4 a.m. on Feb. 25, according to witnesses. The state parole board had approved Littlejohn's employment at a mortgage company but was unaware of his second job as a bouncer at the bar. New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has called Littlejohn the "prime suspect" in the killing of St. Guillen, whose nude, bound body turned up Feb. 25 in Brooklyn. Speaking with CNN on Wednesday, Kelly cited a DNA match of Littlejohn's blood to ties used to bind St. Guillen's hands, and the fact he was the last person seen with her by several witnesses. "And there's other evidence, of course, that puts him in the proximity of the victim ... there's other forensic evidence that will be talked about with the unsealing of the indictment," Kelly said. In addition, Kelly said, telephone records "put the telephone that Mr. Littlejohn had in his possession in the immediate vicinity where the body was located." St. Guillen's body was found later that day in an isolated lot in Brooklyn, her face covered with strips of transparent tan packing tape, her long brown hair cut and a sock stuffed into her throat, police said. Investigators determined she had been raped. Sources familiar with the investigation told CNN Wednesday that Littlejohn had been charged in St. Guillen's death. It's expected that the indictment will be unsealed Thursday and that he will be arraigned shortly thereafter. Littlejohn's attorney, Kevin O'Donnell, confirmed an indictment was pending in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper. "He's (Littlejohn's) not surprised by this indictment and, quite frankly, neither am I," O'Donnell said. "A week and a half ago Commissioner Kelly named him as the prime suspect so it wasn't a question of if he was going to be indicted, but a question of when." O'Donnell said he doesn't know what his client has been charged with, but will find out on Thursday. St. Guillen's mother, Maureen St. Guillen, and sister, Alejandra St. Guillen, traveled to New York Wednesday from their home in Boston in anticipation of the arraignment, according to a family friend acting as spokesperson for the family. CNN's Allan Chernoff and Lauren Rivera contributed to this report. 
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