A 21-year-old by the name of Reeaz Khan has been charged with the sexual abuse and murder of a 92-year-old woman in New York.

The victim, Maria Fuertes, was found lying on a street in Queens in the wee hours of the morning on Monday. She was suffering from very serious injuries and sadly, she later died in the hospital.

Khan says he was trying to help her before his pants fell down and his genitals came into contact with hers.

Khan told detectives, “He fell down, his belt broke, his pants fell down and his penis fell near her vagina,” the prosecutor, Joseph Grasso, said in court.

At that point, something came over him, Khan claimed.

Khan, made the astonishing claim to detectives on Thursday after he was arrested over the horrific death of Maria Fuertes, 92.

Strong was discovered lying ‘incoherent’ on a street near her home in Queens around 2 am Monday, with a broken spine, rib fractures and bruises on her chest and neck. The beloved local, whom the neighbors called ‘grandmother’, died later in the hospital.

The suspect charged with the shocking murder and sick sexual abuse of a beloved 92-year-old Queens woman says he loves his late grandmother too much to ever hurt an old woman.

“I’m crying about this too,” Reeaz Khan, 21, said in an exclusive interview with the Daily News on Rikers Island, where he is being held without bail after being caught on video allegedly initiating the attack.

“I had a grandma that I took care of,” he said, sobbing throughout his hour-long account of what transpired. “I’d wipe her eyes, carry her, and take her to doctors appointments. I would never hurt an elderly woman.”

Khan says he had gone to a hookah lounge to meet up with his cousins but was walking home disappointed after not finding them there when he came upon the victim. Maria Fuertes, already on the ground, “kicking her legs and shaking her arms around.”

“As I walked down the sidewalk I saw someone, a lady on the floor to the side of me,” Khan said. “I should have kept walking and just not helped but it’s in my heart to help.”

prosecutors say Khan was caught on surveillance video approaching Maria Fuertes, pictured, from behind while she was still standing, checking a pile of garbage bags for returnable empties on 127th St. in South Richmond Hill just after midnight Jan. 6. (Obtained by Daily News)

But prosecutors say he was caught on surveillance video approaching Maria Fuertes from behind while she was still standing, checking a pile of garbage bags for returnable empties on 127th St. in South Richmond Hill just after midnight Jan. 6.

The video shows them then falling to the ground together, disappearing from view behind a car for four sickening minutes just around the corner from the victim’s home.

Then Khan, a day laborer who lives less than a mile from the crime scene, is seen running off alone.

“I got scared and so I tried to grab her and push her up but she hit me with her arms and I fell back,” Khan claimed improbably Sunday. “I was so scared I didn’t know what to do… I just ran home and left.”

The front page of the New York Daily News on Jan. 11, 2020: She Was 92, Sicko; Reeaz Khan, 21, is charged with sexual assault and murder of 92-year-old Maria Fuertes outside her home in Queens. (New York Daily News)

He said his phone was dead and couldn’t call the cops.

Fuertes died at Jamaica Hospital with a fracture spine, broken ribs, internal hemorrhaging and tears in her vagina, according to court papers.

“I should have called police when I got back home but I was scared,” Khan told The News. “It’s impossible for my DNA to be inside her because I never touched her like that.”

“Why would I touch a 92 year old woman?” he added. “I have a girlfriend and have had sex with other women.”

Khan was pictured walking out of the police precinct flanked by two officer on Friday following his arrest.

Khan has told detectives that he was simply walking by when he came across Fuertes lying on the pavement and tried to help her

On Friday last week, investigators charged Khan with sexual abuse and murder in the second-degree, with reports saying a tip-off came from his own brother.

Investigators also claim they were able to retrieve significant surveillance footage from the area that proves Khan committed the crime.

They believe Khan approached Fuertes from behind while she was walking home from a deli where she went to buy cat food late at night.

Police assert Khan then attacked her, before the pair became involved in a scuffle and fell to the ground.

However, Khan told detectives that he was simply walking through the area when he came across Fuertes lying on the pavement.

He claims he was trying to help her up when ‘he fell down, his belt broke, his pants fell down and his penis fell near her vagina’.

According to The Post, Khan told detectives that at that moment ‘something came over him’ and he ‘lifted up Fuertes’ skirt and try to put his penis inside of her’.

Khan reportedly admitted to suffering ‘uncontrollable urges,’ and decided to act upon them.

He is being held without bond and will appear in court on January 15.

The victim’s two sons, busy planning her funeral Sunday, didn’t buy his claim for a minute.

“Honestly he better not act like he don’t know what he did. He killed her, he killed my mother,” said Hugo Fuertes, 69. “Now he’s scared because he knows what’s coming, he knows what’s waiting for him.”

“He knows what he did and the community is angry,” added the victim’s younger son, Ray Fuertes, 52. ” I bet he just didn’t know there were cameras.”

After cops released surveillance video of the suspect and asked the public’s help identifying him, Khan’s own brother called the cops Friday and ratted him out.

Prosecutors say he gave conflicting accounts of what happened to detectives once he was taken into custody, at one point bizarrely claiming he fell down, his belt buckle broke and “his pants fell down and his penis fell near her vagina but he did not have intercourse with her,” according to the criminal complaint against him.

Khan later told officials he did lift her skirt up and tried to put his penis inside of her and “did not know what came over him,” according to the complaint.