An ex-con was charged Thursday with the fatal-attraction stabbing of a Bronx woman he wooed on the Internet and ambushed on a park bench - after the dying victim whispered his name to cops, police said.
Nimzay Aponte, 23, was close to death at Lincoln Hospital when she told cops at her bedside, "Mike did it," police said.
"Mike" was the screen name used by violent Bronx felon Raymond Dennis, 35, on the Internet dating site Local-Hookupz.com, cops said.
Investigators believe Dennis flew into a rage when Aponte refused to meet him in person after the pair chatted online through Local Hookupz and AOL Instant Messenger.
A convicted drug dealer with more than a dozen arrests, Dennis allegedly tracked Aponte to a job fair she was attending in the Bronx on Monday.
He found her outside the job fair, chatting with a group of men and women.
"Isn't this lovely?" Dennis fumed at Aponte, according to police sources. "What's this? Some kind of double date?"
Dennis stormed off, but the following day, he returned to the facility inside St.Mary's Park with a knife, cops said.
He spotted his Internet crush chatting with another guy on a park bench.
Enraged, he crept up behind the pair and stabbed the man in the leg before plunging his knife into Aponte's lower back and side, police said.
"I told you not to lie!" Dennis screamed before fleeing, sources said.
Aponte was fatally wounded. Her 25-year-old pal survived.
Armed with Dennis' screen name, cops tracked him down at the corner of Webster and Tremont Aves. Thursday. He was charged with murder, criminal possession of a weapon and assault.
Aponte's longtime friend and roommate, Carbet Tapia, 24, said Aponte told her Dennis was "a crackhead" and a stalker who had threatened her the day before she was stabbed.
Tragically, Aponte considered him harmless and just "an annoyance."
"The day before she was murdered, this guy confronted Nimzay and the guy in the same park where she was killed," Tapia said. "He said he didn't want to see her with another guy."
It wasn't the first time Dennis had allegedly attacked a woman.
Last October, he was busted for punching a woman in the face so hard she spit blood, police said. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four months behind bars.
In 2007, he threatened ex-wife Rashida Dunne, who had an order of protection against him. "I'm going to take you off this Earth," he told her in a phone call.
He pleaded guilty to harassment and was sentenced to a conditional discharge.