A Bronx man stabbed his neighbor to death after taking offense to the victim walking into the suspect’s apartment high on meth and carrying a meth pipe, law enforcement sources tell the Daily News.
Antonio Jackson admitted he knifed 34-year-old neighbor Aaron Carpenter multiple times outside the vitim’s Crotona Park East apartment building Friday evening, according to the sources.
Jackson, 31, was arraigned on murder, manslaughter and weapon possession charges in Bronx Criminal Court Sunday and was ordered held without bail on Rikers Island.
Though police listed Carpenter’s address in South Jamaica, Queens, he actually was currently living in an apartment building on Bryant Ave. near E. 172nd St. next door to Jackson’s, sources said.
On Friday, Carpenter walked into Jackson’s building and entered his apartment, apparently high on meth and carrying a meth pipe, sources said. Jackson would later tell police he felt disrespected by the incursion.
Jackson and a neighbor escorted the victim out of the building and a short time later, Jackson went outside wielding a 12-inch kitchen knife to confront Carpenter, sources said.
Carpenter tried to get back into his own apartment building but Jackson “ran him down,” repeatedly stabbing him from behind on the victim’s stoop, a law enforcement source said.
He allegedly stabbed Carpenter repeatedly in the neck and torso and Carpenter fell to the ground, sources said. Jackson briefly left but returned to see Carpenter bleeding out in front of a neighboring building, the source said.
Police arrested Carpenter in the area shortly after and he allegedly admitted to the stabbing, saying he felt “disrespected” by the victim entering his apartment high on meth, the source said.
Medics rushed Carpenter to St. Barnabas Hospital but he couldn’t be saved.
Jackson also faces charges in a pending domestic violence case — he’s accused of repeatedly punching his 28-year-old intimate partner in her face and head in his apartment on Dec. 16 and putting a plastic bag over her head to cut off her breathing.
Jackson’s lawyer could not immediately be reached for comment Monday.
Carpenter’s slaying marks the first homicide this year in the 42nd Precinct, which covers Claremont, Crotona Park East and Crotona Park.
Homicides dropped citywide by 20% last year, with 77 fewer victims than the 382 in 2024, though more than one-third of the city’s slayings and shootings took place in the Bronx, according to NYPD statistics.
