CRIME
Upper East Side Gay Hook-Up Ends in Murder
Troubled Oklahoman faced child molestation charges before alleged slaying
BY MATT TRACY
A 24-year-old man from
Oklahoma allegedly
stumbled into New York
City, visited a guy he
met on a dating app, killed him,
and blew the slain man’s money
all over the city, according to news
reports and court documents from
the Manhattan district attorney’s
offi ce.
Alex Ray Scott was busted on
January 29 and hit with a seconddegree
murder charge for killing
a man in an apartment the night
before at 120 East 83rd Street between
Park and Lexington Avenues
in Manhattan — and he apparently
hasn’t been shy about admitting
to it.
“I think I may have killed someone
last night,” Scott told Detective
Roman Ilustre, according to
a criminal complaint obtained by
Gay City News.
Multiple news reports say the
man Scott killed was 64-year-old
antiques dealer Kenneth Savinski,
though a spokesperson for the
Manhattan DA’s offi ce wouldn’t
confi rm the victim’s name. The
New York Post reported that the
pair met on a dating app, and The
New York Times reported, citing
the Manhattan DA’s offi ce, that the
two met at Savinski’s home for a
“romantic liaison.”
It appears Scott arrived in New
York City facing serious legal trouble.
It is widely reported that court
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during a discussion about Brexit,
didn’t end there. He also, without
any evidence, dismissed most
Americans as opponents of equal
rights in general and suggested
that only educated and more welloff
people believe in equality.
“If you think about it, we, the
‘intelligentsia people’ who could
make it into this room, we believe
in a lot of things in terms of
equality and protecting individual
rights that make no sense to the
vast bulk of people,” Bloomberg
A photograph of Alex Ray Scott taken by Oklahoma authorities in 2018.
documents in Tulsa County show
he allegedly faced charges in September
of 2018 for molesting a fi veyear
old boy. The Times reported
that Scott fl ed the state when detectives
were seeking to interview
him, and authorities fi nally spotted
him weeks later in Montauk.
He told cops, according to The
Times, that he intended to drive to
New York to commit suicide, so he
was sent to a psychiatric hospital
on Long Island. He was later returned
to Oklahoma and made to
wear an ankle monitor before facing
trial, which was not scheduled
until June of this year. But he went
said. “They’re not opposed to you
having some rights, but there’s a
fundamental disconnect between
us believing the rights of individual
comes fi rst, and the general
belief around the world, I think,
sort of say that the rights of society
come fi rst.”
When asked to explain the video
or comment on it, the Bloomberg
campaign instead defended the
candidate’s record on LGBTQ issues
as New York City mayor,
when he signed a transgender
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on to ditch the ankle monitor in
another bid to fl ee the area.
He returned to New York and ignored
required pre-trial court appearances,
prompting a judge in
Oklahoma to put out a warrant for
his arrest in January.
The criminal complaint noted
that Scott and Savinski were seen
entering Savinski’s apartment at
around 11:30 p.m. on January 28.
Scott left two hours later wearing
Savinski’s clothing, according to
surveillance video footage.
He was also seen counting cash
as he was leaving. The next evening,
he returned to the apartment
but bolted the scene when he spotted
cops nearby, according to The
Times.
Cops who arrived at Savinski’s
apartment on the afternoon of January
29 said the victim was found
face down with a head wound and
blood splattered around the apartment.
He was subsequently pronounced
dead.
“I observed that the decedent
had large and deep lacerations
across his throat and across his
face, and that there were broken
pieces of several sharp objects
near the body, and pieces of those
objects in the wounds,” Detective
Ilustre noted.
The complaint stated that on
January 30 at 9 a.m., Scott entered
the Midtown North precinct
— with cuts on his fi nger and hand
— to turn himself in. It was then,
police say, that he admitted to the
murder and stated that he had the
victim’s driver’s license and three
of his credit cards.
Little has been reported about
Savinksi. The New York Times
wrote that he most recently worked
with an antiques dealer known as
Nesle Incorporated. Emails to Nesle
were not immediately returned.
Savinski was also known to visit
family in Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
and previously ran a business on
Maryland’s eastern shore. He did
not appear to have a presence on
social media.
Scott’s attorney, Jessica Horani,
declined comment for this story.
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Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg was caught making controversial comments about
Americans from the Midwest, trans people, and class differences in the US.
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