Bouncer Denies Slaying Student

Hours after Darryl Littlejohn was reportedly indicted in the murder of Imette St. Guillen, a television news interview aired Wednesday in which he said matter-of-factly that all he did was walk the graduate student out of a bar on Feb. 24.

“They have the wrong person,” the soft-spoken bouncer, unshaven and in a gray prison smock, said. “I didn’t do it.”

Littlejohn, 41, an ex-convict considered the prime suspect in the killing since police announced they had discovered his blood on plastic ties used to bind the woman’s hands and feet, is charged in an indictment expected to be unsealed today, law enforcement sources said.

The bound body of St. Guillen, 24, a criminal justice graduate student at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, was found dumped in a weedy lot in Brooklyn after a night out drinking. She had been raped.

St. Guillen was last seen alive at the Falls, a SoHo bar where Littlejohn worked.

Besides the DNA and other physical evidence, police say witnesses have told investigators they saw Littlejohn with the victim outside the bar.

The bar manager also recalled hearing the pair arguing as they left in the early morning.

St. Guillen’s family arrived in New York on Wednesday to be on hand for the expected arraignment today, but a family spokesman declined to comment on the bouncer’s televised interview.

A call to Littlejohn’s attorney was not immediately returned.

His lawyer has said Littlejohn was being made the scapegoat because police could not find the real killer.

Littlejohn, whose aliases include Jonathan Blaze, John Handsome, Damon Wells and Darryl Banks, has a long rap sheet that includes robbery, drug and gun convictions.

Police are holding him on a parole violation while they build their case. Littlejohn was accused of violating his parole by working at the bar after his 9 p.m. curfew.

Investigators said Littlejohn’s cellphone was used in the area where the body was found.

New York authorities have called Littlejohn a “person of interest” in several other violent crimes, including an Oct. 16 sexual assault in Forest Hills, an Oct. 19 kidnapping of a girl in Jamaica and a subsequent Nov. 9 abduction-rape of that victim, who was then 15, in Elmont.

Nassau police cited similarities between the Elmont case and the St. Guillen case, though they have yet to name him as a suspect.