A spokesman for St. Guillen's family said her kin are coming from Boston to attend an expected arraignment tomorrow.

A Brooklyn grand jury is expected to vote today on whether to indict bouncer Darryl Littlejohn, sources told The News. The Brooklyn district attorney's office declined to comment.

Ryan Kocher, St. Guillen's former boyfriend and classmate at CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said he hoped for first-degree murder charges, which carry a top sentence of life in prison without parole.

"I'm glad it's moving along. I want to see results quickly," he said. "There is no question in my mind what happened."

The ex-con is the prime suspect in the savage slaying of St. Guillen, a beautiful, 24-year-old student studying for a master's degree at John Jay.

Her nude and battered body was found last month on a weeded section of Fountain Ave. in East New York. She had been raped, then suffocated to death, her face wrapped with tape.

Littlejohn, 41, worked as a bouncer at The Falls, the SoHo club where St. Guillen was last seen alive. Witnesses reported seeing Littlejohn escort St. Guillen out of the bar as it closed the morning of Feb. 25. Her body was found that night.

For a week, the grand jury has heard from the city medical examiner, NYPD crime scene investigators and a renowned forensics expert on hairs and fibers that could link Littlejohn to the crime, sources said.

They also heard testimony from a DNA expert about matches between Littlejohn and blood found on ties that bound her, sources said.

Another witness testified about Littlejohn's cell phone records and "pings" from his phone that tracked the suspect from his Jamaica home to where St. Guillen's body was dumped, a source said.

Littlejohn's attorney Kevin O'Donnell did not return calls yesterday.

Originally published on March 22, 2006