NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A 23-year-old man was indicted for fatally stabbing and dismembering his step grandfather then putting his wrapped-up body parts in the East River last month, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced Thursday.
Christian Millet was charged with one count of murder and one count of concealment of a human corpse.
According to court documents, Millet was the grandson of 65-year-old Edwin Echevarria’s ex-girlfriend. They periodically lived with Echevarria and had repeated arguments over several years in their NYCHA Baruch Houses apartment on the Lower East Side.
Their most recent and biggest dispute was over food, sources told 1010 WINS.
On Feb. 2, Millet attacked Echevarria with a homemade ice pick while he was on the phone. Millet repeatedly stomped and kicked him in the head and then stabbed him at least 13 times in the torso, prosecutors said.
Millet then cut Echevarria into several pieces using a kitchen knife, wrapped the body parts into several bags and discarded them in the East River over the next several days.
The NYPD’s Harbor Unit recovered Echevarria’s headless and limbless torso from a suitcase floating in the river near Governors Island on Feb. 5. Millet was arrested a week later. Police found a screwdriver and towels soaked with blood inside a bag at the apartment.
“Christian Millet allegedly committed a shocking and brutal murder, and my thoughts are with Mr. Echevarria’s loved ones,” D.A. Bragg said. “I want to thank our prosecutors and the NYPD detectives who worked quickly and diligently to connect the facts and evidence in this case."