Brooklyn New School Prof's Accused Killer Indicted: Prosecutors

DITMAS PARK, BROOKLYN — The man accused of stabbing a New School professor to death in his victim’s Ditmas Park home was charged with murder, prosecutors announced Friday.

Mirzo Atadzhanov, 29, was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court and charged with killing Jeremy Safran 66, in his home at 155 Stratford Road the evening of May 7, prosecutors said.

Police found Atadzhanov — and the fatally wounded Safran — in the Ditmas Park basement after the professor’s wife called 911, prosecutors said.

Safran had been stabbed twice in the chest, three times in the stomach and was pronounced dead at the scene, said prosecutors.

Police pulled Atadzhanov out of the closet where he was hiding and soon after found the knife that killed Safran in the trunk of Atadzhanov’s car, prosecutors said.

Investigators later discovered that Atadzhanov had followed the professor’s 19-year-old daughter to the their front door, spoken to her, then left, said prosecutors.

The Sheepshead Bay man was held without bail and ordered to return to court on Aug. 29, prosecutors said.

Atadzhanov could face a life sentence without parole if convicted of murder, prosecutors said.

Photo of Jeremy Safran courtesy of the New School