Roommate Search Led to Stabbing Death: Police

Clarkstown police have disclosed the relationship between the West Nyack man who was stabbed Dec. 1 and the Manhattan teenager who is accused of killing him.

Michael Wimbert, 66, had been looking for a roommate.

Dylan Lentini, 19, answered his ad on Craigslist.

Lentini came up from Manhattan on Nov. 27 and by arrangement Wimbert picked him up at the White Plains train station, police said.

This appears to be the first time both parties had met, according to the Clarkstown Detective Bureau. Prior to the ad being answered on the internet, there was no relationship.

Wimbert was found dead at about 1:45 a.m. Tuesday morning in the multifamily home on Demarest Avenue where he lived, after Lentini was seen running from the house yelling for someone to “call 911.” Lentini was bleeding from a laceration wound to his hand, according to news reports.

Lentini was charged with second-degree murder.

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PHOTO: Dylan Lentini/Clarkstown police