One corpse was left under a Brooklyn bed. Another — his own grandmother’s — was stuffed into a clothes closet in Harlem.
Bodies seem to turn up hither and yon in the wake of Larry Davis, who pleaded not guilty in Manhattan today to charges he killed Cora Davis, 76, and stuffed her in her bedroom closet in March.
In a police confession released today after he was arraigned on manslaughter and assault charges, Davis, 22, admitted to being just a little emotionally disorganized when it comes to figuring out what best to do with a dead person.
“I was freaking out,” he told cops. “I never saw a dead body before in my life.”
Brooklyn authorities might quibble over that — while Davis was in jail last month on the granny-slay, they busted him for the Aug. 19 strangulation murder of Richard McCoy, whose body had been stashed under a bed.
“At this point, I decided to put grandma in her closet,” Davis’s Manhattan confession continues. “I had so many emotions going on in my head that I can’t explain why putting grandma in the closet was the best thing.”
He’d been arguing with the frail woman over why she wouldn’t give him any cash, and had angrily “bumped” her on the right shoulder, causing her to crash fatally to the floor, according to his confession.
“I put grandma in head first into the closet and folded her legs up so she can fit in the closet,” he explained. He later partied in the same bedroom with two buddies and a girlfriend, he admitted.
Davis’s arraignment on charges of assaulting an elderly person — for the alleged fatal shove — was well timed. Today is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan DA’s office noted.