BY Bill Egbert and John Lauinger
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Originally Published:Sunday, January 31st 2010, 12:03 PM
Updated: Sunday, January 31st 2010, 2:49 PM
A man shot his girlfriend to death in the Bronx after she complained his religious rants disturbed her sleep, police and a witness said Sunday.
Jordan Miles, 17, said he was playing a video game Saturday night with the cold-blooded culprit - whose street name is Nova - before the 30-year-old thug wigged out while talking on his cell phone.
"He got to the point where he was just yelling: 'God is great! God is great!" Jordan said.
The man's ravings awakened his girlfriend - identified by cops as Anna Radzimirski, 25 - who had been sleeping in the apartment on Woodycrest Ave. in Highbridge.
Radzimirski then made a call on her cell phone during which she grumpily accused the boyfriend of being high on drugs, Jordan said.
The boyfriend - who was in police custody Sunday - exploded in a rage, fetching a handgun from under a bed and cocking it back, preparing to fire.
Jordan said he pleaded with the man to "chill out," but he wouldn't listen.
"He pointed it straight at her face and shot," Jordan recalled. "That's when my reflexes kicked in and I grabbed for the gun."
As the two wrestled for control of the weapon, a second shot was fired - grazing Miles' arm before lodging in Radzimirski's chest.
Jordan said the ammo clip fell out of the gun during the struggle, and he managed to push the killer out the door - then tackled him down a flight of stairs.
"I think it stunned him," Miles said of the fall, "because I got up quicker than he did. Then, with all my strength, I grabbed the gun, got it away, then ran home."
Jordan said that as he scampered away, the wacked-out shooter barked: "God is great! You're gunna die!"
Cops responded to a 911 call from Jordan's home one block away on Nelson Ave. late Saturday night. They found the 17-year-old bleeding from the graze wound and still in possession of the murder weapon.
Jordan - initially considered a suspect but then cleared - led cops to the grisly scene in the Woodycrest Ave. flat. They discovered
Radzimirski, of the Bronx, dead of gunshot wounds to the head and chest, police said.
Charges were pending against the unidentified boyfriend, a police source said. The source confirmed Jordan's account that the boyfriend gunned down the woman in the heat of an argument.
A neighbor said he heard two shots ring out - and minutes later, cops swarmed on the block.
Cops said Radzimirski had a Williamsbridge address, but the neighbor, who would provide only his first name, Willie, said he had seen her on the block several times.
"She was a quiet girl," the 51-year-old neighbor said. "I would see her going to the store. She'd keep to herself, mind her own business."
"This is a hot block. There are always fights, drugs, shootings, muggings," the neighbor said, adding that men routinely drink alcohol outside the building where Radzimirski's body was found.
"You would see guys coming and going from the front and back [of the building] at all hours," he said.
The death scene is on the same block as the doomed row house where nine children and one woman perished in March 2007 after a faulty space heater sparked a raging inferno.
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