A 34-year-old man was fatally shot in the back near Yankee Stadium in The Bronx on Sunday night — minutes before a 29-year-old guy was stabbed to death on the opposite end of the borough, police said.
Javan Jones was slain around 9:35 p.m. in front of an apartment building on East 161 Street near Courtlandt Avenue in Concourse Village about a half-mile from the major league ballfield, authorities said.
Jones was taken to Lincoln Medical Center, where he succumbed to his injuries, police said.
The motive for the deadly shooting was not immediately known, and no arrests had been made by late Monday afternoon.
Jones lived in NYCHA’s Carver Houses in East Harlem, but he was known to frequent the area of the shooting, according to a local deli worker who saw him hours before he was killed.
“I saw him yesterday….about 12 [noon], 1 p.m.,” said the worker, who did not identify himself.
“Man, that’s crazy. That was unexpected,” he said of Jones’ death.
A 49-year-old resident said she’s concerned about increasing violence as the weather warms up.
“Summer time is coming, and it’s going to get hot over here,” she said. “Nobody knows how to communicate, everything is about disrespect.”
The shooting came just minutes before another man was stabbed to death in the West Farms section of the borough, police said.
That victim, 29, who has not yet been identified, was stabbed repeatedly around 9:40 p.m. opposite an apartment building on West Farms Road near Rodman Place, authorities said.
He was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.
No arrests had been made by Monday afternoon, while the motive remained under investigation.
Overall, felony crime in The Bronx is down by about 11 percent so far this year, according to the latest NYPD data.
The NYPD officially split The Bronx last week into two patrol boroughs — a “major restructuring” that will add nearly 200 more officers to the northernmost borough.
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