A court document says a man charged with killing four people and wounding four others in a 28-hour stabbing spree last month told police that he had cancer. He also allegedly said he’d have been better off if officers had shot him, and said he’d had “a doozy of a day.”

Prosecutors filed the account of Maksim Gelman’s statements during his court date Tuesday on attempted murder and other charges in a Manhattan subway stabbing. A lawyer entered a not guilty plea for Gelman.

Authorities say the subway attack was the final burst of violence in a rampage last month that began in Brooklyn.

The document says Gelman also lamented his family life, told police was he sorry and warned them to “stay away from angel dust.”

Gelman has said sometimes his mind isn’t right.

Investigators said on Feb. 11, the 23-year old Ukrainian immigrant stabbed his stepfather to death after he refused to give up the keys to his Lexus.

Gelman then allegedly took the car and drove to Yelena Bulchenko’s house. Police said he stabbed her mother, Anna, to death, then waited for the 20-year-old to come home.

When she did several hours later, police said Gelman chased her into the street and stabbed her to death.

After Gelman allegedly slashed and carjacked a man in Brooklyn, police said, he then ran down a 62-year-old pedestrian who died of his injuries.

Gelman then allegedly carjacked a livery cab driver the next morning and disappeared into the mass transit system. He was finally tackled by two police officers and arrested around eight hours later in a subway tunnel under Times Square.

Police said Gelman attacked and unsuccessfully tried to kill a passenger on the number 3 train Saturday before trying to force his way into a motorman’s car.

(Source: WCBSTV)