New York.- Matthew Rushie, a 46-year-old ex-convict, turned himself in to the police on suspicion of fatally shooting his neighbor in the middle of a long discussion about the noise he made at his residence in The Bronx (NYC).
Rushie appeared on December 23 with an attorney at the 49th Precinct Precinct and was charged with manslaughter and possession of a loaded weapon. He was arraigned in Bronx Criminal Court the next day and was ordered held without bail, the Daily News reported yesterday.
Police accused him of fatally shooting Dillon St. Clair, 39, the night of Dec. 17 outside the multi-family home where they both lived on Morgan Ave. in the Pelham Gardens neighborhood.
St. Clair was shot in the chest and rushed to Jacobi Medical Center, but they were unable to save him.
“The assailant has turned himself in on the advice of his lawyer,” Kathleen Dismuke, the victim’s mother-in-law, wrote in a post to an online fundraiser to cover funeral expenses. “We are grateful for that and hurt and angry that this senseless act occurred and inexplicably sad to have to experience this kind of pain and sadness, especially for my (four) grandchildren.”
Rushie has several criminal records: He was paroled in March 2002 after serving 19 months on a weapons conviction. Before, as a minor, he had been arrested for robbery in 1993. Then for rape in 2003 and, most recently, for stabbing, police said.
Police said Rushie and St. Clair lived on different floors of the house and had been arguing for some time about the noise.
