Accused Burger King Killer Winston Glynn Compares Himself to Jesus and Mandela

The man accused of murdering a teen-aged East Harlem Burger King cashier during a $100 robbery whined that he was the one being victimized, comparing himself to Nelson Mandela and Jesus Christ.

During an exclusive jailhouse video visit from Rikers Island, Winston Glynn — who ranted about slave reparations and screamed that America will “burn” — insisted he was innocent of the heinous Jan. 9 murder that kicked off a year of violence and lawlessness across New York City.

Winston Glynn

Pretty cashier Kristal Bayron-Nieves, 19, had been working her fast-food job for just three weeks. {snip}

Kristal Bayron-Nieves

It was 45 minutes past midnight when, police say, Glynn barged into the East 116th Street restaurant off of Lexington Avenue wearing a black ski mask.

He pistol-whipped the store’s 59-year-old manager, authorities said, before bashing another person over the head, and turning to Bayron-Nieves. He demanded cash from a register. After she handed over roughly $100 and told him a second register was empty, Glynn shot her in the chest, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said.

Police busted Glynn at a Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, address, where they found clothes the killer had allegedly worn the night of the attack in nearby dumpsters. Law enforcement said it recovered a phone he had stolen from the restaurant’s manager and tossed into a subway tunnel, and tracked the assailant via security footage to a nearby bodega where he conducted an electronic transaction an hour before the fatal stick-up. {snip}

“What happened to Nelson Mandela, what happened to Jesus? [They were] innocent,” said Glynn, 31, wearing a tan jumpsuit and staring with unflinching eyes. “I want to be a leader and all that. A lot of people are jealous, you know.”

During the hour-long interview, Glynn rubbed his hands on his face as he tried to downplay the damning evidence.

He questioned why he would use a traceable payment just before the crime, and why it took a witness days to identify him, and only after the news had blasted footage of the robbery.

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This is not the first time Glynn has ranted about his “innocence.”

After being arrested, he bellowed outside the 25th Precinct stationhouse in East Harlem that “America is gonna burn” and “Where’s our reparations for four hundred years of f–king slavery.” {snip}

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Glynn, whose rap sheet has at least four previous arrests, including for menacing with a weapon in Nov. 2021 and criminal possession of a weapon in Dec. 2020, pleaded not guilty in the death of Baryron-Nieves and was held without bail.

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