Suspect in Murder Of Student ‘Out-of-Control’
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Less than two years ago, the man suspected in the recent murder of graduate student Imette St. Guillen was told: “Your violent and out-of-control behavior shows you to be a menace.”
That was at a May 11, 2004, parole board hearing when Darryl Littlejohn – who has used a whole host of aliases – was denied parole, according to the hearing minutes. He was serving time in Fishkill Correctional Facility for a 1995 armed bank robbery while on parole, the minutes state, but parole officials said he was conditionally released in July 2004. It was his seventh felony conviction.
Officials said police had been keeping an eye on Littlejohn, a bouncer at the Falls, the SoHo bar where 24-year-old St. Guillen was last seen in the early morning on February 25, even before her body was found that night in a desolate area off the Belt Parkway.
Littlejohn was taken to Rikers Island on Monday night for violating his parole, police said. Investigators spent yesterday talking to witnesses and examining possible evidence, police said, including the inside of a van parked three blocks from Littlejohn’s Queens home.
