A 30-year-old Bronx man was fatally shot in a collision just blocks from where a man was stabbed to death a day earlier after a traffic accident, officers said Thursday.
Jonathan Cameron was shot multiple times all over his body just before 10 p.m. Wednesday night on Loring Place, near West Burnside Ave. in Morris Heights, police said. A 19-year-old man who was with him was struck.
Both victims were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where Cameron died. The younger victim is expected to recover.
Cameron was about three blocks from home when he was shot. No arrests have been made.
The shooting happened about a block away from W. Tremont Ave. and Phelan Place, where Ronald Gomez Mesa, 29, was stabbed to death Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. after a teenager and a woman got into a minor collision, police said.
The woman called her boyfriend, who was standing in front of the teenage driver when Gomez Mesa and other bystanders “began taking sides,” New York Police Department Detective Chief Joseph Kenny said Wednesday.
“(The stabber) starts arguing with the driver, the crowd turns on him and starts throwing stuff, hitting him in the head,” Kenny said. “He then turns around and starts stabbing someone in the crowd.”
The stabbing victim ran away and is being sought by police.
According to police, there is currently no evidence that the two murders are linked.
