Killing people is never funny, but pretending to be asian when you’re clearly a huge black man is.
December 4, 2007 — He didn’t “kirr” anybody.
Accused serial killer Stephen Sakai made a bizarre spectacle of himself on the stand at his trial yesterday - affecting a farcical Asian accent and claiming to have flown to the Far East on a private jet for martial-arts competitions.
The 32-year-old Sakai, who is not Asian and whose birth name is Sanders, wore a Charlie Chan-like mustache and pronounced his “L’s” as “R’s” as he testified to deny any role in the three killings he is charged with.
“Rast name, Sakai,” he told the court clerk.
The former bouncer at Sunset Park strip bar Sweet Cherry and Chelsea club Opus 22 faces life in prison for allegedly stabbing to death a one-time buddy, Wayne Tyson, and fatally shooting fellow bouncers Irving Matos and Edwin Mojica in 2005.
He also faces separate trials on charges that he killed one man and injured three in a shooting rampage in May 2006.
On the stand, Sakai pinned the three Brooklyn killings on an NYPD detective, Christopher Breslin - which he pronounced “Bresrin” - who was apparently angry that Sakai had refused to share bodyguard work with him.
“Wayne Tyson was a good person,” Sakai said. “He was a friend of mine. He supported me when I needed him most. Irv Matos did the same.
“He referred to me as his rittle brother. These two people didn’t die because there was someone running around killing. These two people died because they supported me, collecting evidence against a dirty cop.
“During this trial, I’ve had to sit there and listen to rie after rie.”
Under cross-examination by prosecutor Tim Gough, Sakai - who was born in Queens and has never held a passport - claimed that since the age of 5, he had been flown to Cambodia and Vietnam by a mysterious Asian businessman interested in martial arts.
“The rast time I went overseas was in 2006,” he said.
He also alleged cops had force-fed him poison, then injected drugs into his neck before forcing him to confess to the three killings.
