Karina Vetrano Killer On How He 'Finished Her Off,' Describes Final Moment

The man accused of killing Karina Vetrano while she was out jogging in New York described the woman's final moments, telling how he "finished her off." Her family couldn't contain their tears when Chanel Lewis, 20, confessed to the brutal August 2016 murder, in a video played Monday in court.

“I was mad, I saw red,” the accused killer told police in the video. "She was finished. I finished her off, I strangled her. She fell into the puddle and drowned. I got up and wiped off the blood. And she was calm, she was in the pool of water."

The video was recorded in February and played for the family Monday during the pre-trial hearing to determine whether or not it’ll be deemed admissible as evidence.

Lewis told police he grabbed Vetrano as she was jogging past him in a marsh-swamp area of Queens. He said in the video Vetrano clawed at his face as he hit her five times before she was knocked unconscious, according to the New York Post.

“I got scared and then threw her in the bushes,” Lewis said in the video. “Then I went home.”

Lewis denied raping Vetrano and claimed her clothes fell off in the fight.

"I didn't do any of the stuff they said, sexual assault and stuff like that," he told police.

Lewis thought by detailing what happened the night Vetrano was killed, he could pay his way out of murder charges.

“I can straighten out my stuff?” Lewis asks the prosecutor during the February 2017 interview. “Well, you’re the DA, right? Where do we go from here? Is there a restitution program or something?”

Before confessing, he’d told Detective Barry Brown: “I want to change my life, I’m sorry for what I did.”

Vetrano's father said he was feeling “a lot of anger” and lashed out at Lewis’ relatives before he and his family left the court.

“His family left the room,” Philip said. “They couldn’t listen to his confession. We know where the coward got his cowardliness from," adding "the truth hurts... It’s just so tomorrow they can say their offspring is not guilty.”