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Ex-con who stabbed transgendered prostitute knew she was a he?
By TINA MOORE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, February 12th 2008, 4:00 AM
The ex-con who stabbed a Bronx prostitute to death had known the transgendered victim for months, police sources said Monday, casting into doubt the alleged killer's claim that he never knew she was biologically a he.
Steve McMillan, 37, was arraigned Monday on murder and weapons charges and remanded to jail without bail for killing Talib Stewart, 25, who went by the name Sanesha.
"According to our information, he had known the victim for a long time," the source said. "They had been seen together."
After the Saturday morning slaying in the victim's Beaumont Ave. apartment in East Tremont, McMillan told cops he flew into a rage when he learned Stewart's gender. But two sources said Monday that the two had known each other since McMillan got out of state prison in 2007 after serving eight years on a Westchester County drug conviction.
Prosecutors allege McMillan stabbed Stewart in the neck and chest. There were also defensive wounds on Stewart's hands, a police source said.
The source said the statuesque Stewart had been arrested for prostitution four or five times.
Neighbors placed candles in front of the building in the victim's memory Monday.