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Neighbors of a New York teenager accused of decapitating his mom’s boyfriend and leaving his head in the bathtub said the youngster looked “relieved” as he was taken away by police.

Damien Hurstel did not resist officers as he was taken, handcuffed and bloody, from his home in Staten Island Monday evening and was “very calm,” with a “blank” expression on his face, eyewitnesses told The Independent.

The 19-year-old is expected to be charged with murder and criminal possession of

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