Prosecutors have indicted a Bronx man on a murder charge in the fatal stabbing of 34-year-old Aaron Carpenter outside a Crotona Park East apartment building, a killing that authorities say turned a routine knock at a neighbor’s door into deadly violence.
Carpenter was found with multiple stab wounds near a Bryant Avenue building on Jan. 9 and was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he later died, officials said.
What prosecutors allege
According to the indictment, Antonio Jackson followed Carpenter out of the building near 1500 Bryant Ave and stabbed him multiple times with what prosecutors describe as a roughly 12-inch kitchen knife. Carpenter was left crawling between parked cars after the attack, authorities said.
Prosecutors say the trouble started when Carpenter knocked on Jackson’s door and a confrontation spilled into the lobby before moving outside. “This defendant allegedly stabbed the victim multiple times following a dispute,” Bronx DA Darcel D. Clark said, according to News 12.
Official filings
The Bronx District Attorney’s “Cases of Interest” calendar lists Jackson as charged with second-degree murder and additional counts tied to the Jan. 9 killing. The public court calendar places the case on the Bronx Supreme Court docket, signaling that prosecutors have presented the matter to a grand jury for indictment, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s Office.
Arrest and police account
NYPD officers from the 42nd Precinct responded to a 911 call at about 6:30 p.m. and found Carpenter suffering from multiple stab wounds before he was taken to the hospital. Police later arrested 31-year-old Antonio J. Jackson at around 3:45 a.m. the next day and charged him with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, according to FOX 5 NY.
Neighborhood context
The killing was recorded as the first homicide of 2026 in the 42nd Precinct, which covers parts of Crotona Park East and surrounding blocks. The precinct logged 10 homicides last year, underscoring the area’s uneven patterns of violent crime, according to amNewYork.
Charges and next steps
Jackson now faces second-degree murder, along with manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon charges, and is due back in Bronx court on May 29, according to News 12. The DA’s publicly posted court calendar lists the case on the Bronx Supreme Court docket as prosecutors move forward, per the Bronx District Attorney’s Office.
