Talib (Sanesha) Stewart, a 6-foot transsexual, was found stabbed in Bronx building (inset) - allegedly by an ex-con who flew into a rage after finding out Stewart was not a woman.
Talib (Sanesha) Stewart was not your everyday sight in the Bronx - a 6-foot man in high heels and lipstick - but was accepted as family by those around the victim, loved ones said Sunday.
So they were shocked to learn that their 25-year-old transgendered neighbor was stabbed to death Saturday by an ex-con who told cops he flew into a rage when he found out his date was not a woman.
"Nesha was a friend of the whole building - a really nice person who didn't deserve that," downstairs neighbor Steven Bamberg, 45, said. "I called him 'her' out of respect."
Police responded to a dispute on Beaumont Ave. about 6 a.m. and found Stewart stabbed several times.
They arrested Steve McMillan, 37, who was still inside Stewart's apartment. He was waiting to be arraigned on a murder charge last night. Police sources said McMillan was a john who flew into a rage after discovering Stewart, a prostitute, was not a woman.
Bamberg, however, denied Stewart was a prostitute.
The statuesque Stewart had breast implants and other plastic surgery to look more like a woman, neighbors said.
McMillan was released from prison in November after serving eight years on a Westchester County drug conviction, state prison records show.
Bamberg said he heard his friend in distress about 5 a.m. and phoned 911."It was like a scream," he said. "Then I heard, 'Uhhhhhh,' softer and softer, her last breath."
When cops arrived, they knocked at Stewart's door repeatedly, Bamberg said. McMillan eventually answered, the neighbor said.
Bamberg said he saw police with guns drawn telling the suspect as they led him outside, "You know your friend upstairs is dead."
"You killed my friend!" Bamberg recalled screaming at McMillan before collapsing onto the curb and crying.
Stewart was well-loved since moving into the building three years ago, Bamberg said."We all accepted her," he said.
Bamberg said McMillan was at the house hours before the killing, claiming to have left something in Stewart's apartment.
He said cops removed the apartment door as evidence.
"There's a big pool of blood on the floor and all over the bed," Bamberg said. "It looks like a war zone."
A spokeswoman with the medical examiner's office said the fatal blows penetrated Stewart's throat and lung.
Stewart's grandmother, Evelyn Stewart, said she loved the victim.
"I've always been close to him," she said after identifying Stewart's body yesterday. "I didn't care what he was."
McMillan was charged with attempting to sell a controlled substance in 1999, records show. He recently returned to Yonkers and was living temporarily at a shelter, a friend, who identified himself as Ramel C., said.
Ramel C., 37, said McMillan had a girlfriend. He said his life-long friend must have been shocked to discover he was with a man.
"I'm not saying that's a reason to kill anyone," he said. "But I'm sure he was in some type of turmoil or shock."
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