Two men are in custody following a deadly beatdown of a man in his Bronx home, police said Sunday.
Cops responding to a frantic 911 call about an assault around 6:10 p.m. Saturday found Kristopher Samaroo, 30, mortally wounded with blunt force trauma to his body outside his home on the Throgs Neck Expressway, near Barkley Ave in Throgs Neck.
Samaroo’s wife made the 911 call, police sources told the Daily News.
Medics took Samaroo to Jacobi Medical Center, but he couldn’t be saved.
Police on Sunday said two men had been arrested in the case. Both Omar Lamoni, 43, and Edwin Nina, 39, were charged with assault, cops said. Both men live in the area. Further information about what sparked the deadly confrontation were not immediately released.
Neighbors told The News they heard a loud argument the same day as the killing.
“Yesterday he was fighting. I heard shouting, that’s it,” said next-door neighbor Nalmul Islam, 38.
Islam told The News he hears “regular shouting” from Samaroo’s house every two or three months, and “that’s why I showed no interest … that’s why I didn’t take interest.”
Another neighbor, an 85-year-old man who didn’t give his name, added: “I heard an argument but I mind my own business.”
“In these five months I’ve been living here, three times I heard fighting out there,” the man added.
Samaroo lived with his brother, who is the building’s tenant, Islam said.
Islam, who said he moved into the neighborhood last year, called it a quiet block where people don’t hang around outside, or open fire hydrants in the summer.
“It’s a very nice [neighborhood], he said. “The school is very nice.”
Samaroo’s killing marks the fourth homicide this year in the 45th Precinct, which saw five slayings in all of 2023, according to NYPD statistics.
