GREENBURGH (New York) - POLICE say an aspiring rapper who was wanted in a New Jersey stabbing killed himself in a taxi as suburban New York officers closed in on him.

Greenburgh police say the cab carrying Darnell Brittingham of Hackensack was pulled over by police on Tuesday night.

The 23-year-old performed under the stage name 'King Tut.'

Police Lt Chris McNerney says police ordered everyone out, but Brittingham refused. McNerney says that as police converged,

Brittingham shot himself in the head.

Brittingham was accused of stabbing a woman seven times in a Hackensack apartment on Feb 12.

The lieutenant said on Wednesday that Brittingham had been under surveillance since Hackensack police learned he was at a Greenburgh motel. -- AP