Just when you thought you were done with Maksim Gelman, the 24-year-old Brooklyn man who admitted to killing four people and injuring four others during a 28-hour rampage across Brooklyn and Manhattan, the subway stabber got one last creep in. At a sentencing for his non-fatal attack on Joseph Lozito (to go on top of the 200 years he already got), Gelman spewed obscenities, insulted his victim and, oh yeah, proposed to Kim Kardashian.
When given a chance to speak before being sentenced Gelman told the court, "The only thing I have to say is Kim Kardashian, will you marry me? I’ll make it last more than 72 days." If the reality star wants to take him up on the offer, at least she'll never have to live with him: He was later sentenced to an additional 25 years on top of the two centuries in jail he'll be spending for killing his stepfather, a former love interest and her mother, and a man he hit with a stolen car.
Still, Gelman was not the star of the show in court today. That was Lozito, the martial arts-movie loving man who managed to stop Gelman's spree—and has the scars to prove it. Take it away, Daily News!
“When you attacked and I took you down, you went down real easy,” Lozito told the killer.
“You didn’t take me down, you jerk off,” Gelman snarled.
That’s when Lozito slammed him as the “funniest Russian since Yakov Smirnoff,” a comedian whose shtick was popular in the 1980’s and is best known for ending his patter with, “America, what a country.”
“I appreciate you chose me,” Lozito taunted Gelman.
“I really do ... Maybe if you’d continued your extreme cowardice, you would have picked on another person, a woman and maybe she couldn’t defend herself. Or a child.”
Clearly stung, Gelman responded by calling Lozito a “jerk ---” and a “f-----g moron.”
“Why are you so angry?” Lozito taunted.
Outraged, Gelman started yelling, prompting the judge to tell him to pipe down.
“Just think about the lives you have changed,” Lozito resumed, ticking off the names of Gelman’s victims. “They’ll never get to walk the face of this earth because you’re a spoiled little boy who nobody listened to as a kid. Instead of taking your ball and going home, you threw a tantrum.”
In parting, Lozito added, “I wish you all the best. I hope you rot in your cell and you have hell to look foward to, so enjoy it.”
As Lozito returned to his seat, Gelman sneered, “That jerk --- can suck my ----.”
“No thank you, for the record,” Lozito replied.
After Lozito and Gelman did their routine, Justice Richard Carruthers sentenced the latter and announced "We’ve been subjected today to something of this evil man’s unrepentant nature. Remove him."
