Metro

NYC man chased down and killed in driveway: cops

A man was stabbed multiple times by two men who left him to die in a Bronx driveway on Friday evening, police said.

Jesse Jackson, 35, was found dead in front of a two-story home on East 227th Street off Barnes Avenue in the Edenwald section around 7 p.m., according to the NYPD.

The victim was chased by the suspects from the avenue to the home before he was stabbed to death, cops said.

NYPD police stand at the the scene where a 35-year-old man was found dead in front of a two-story home on East 227th Street off Barnes Avenue.
NYPD police stand at the the scene where a 35-year-old man was found dead in front of a two-story home on East 227th Street off Barnes Avenue. Christopher Sadowski

He was pronounced dead at Montifiore Hospital. Police had not made any arrests by early Saturday.

Jackson lived around three miles away in Mt. Vernon, according to cops.

An hour earlier, a teenager was shot in the back while at a park in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the borough, according to police.

A gunman on a green dirt bike fired multiple rounds in St. Mary’s Park at around 6 p.m., cops said.

The shooter sped off on the bike and was still being sought, according to the NYPD. The victim’s condition was unclear.