Kin grieve for Bronx strangle vic

A South Carolina family has been devastated by the gruesome death of a loved one found strangled in his Bronx apartment, but believes justice will be done.

Marque McClain, 53, was found in his sixth-floor apartment on Jesup Ave. near Sherif S. Byrd Place in Highbridge around 2:20 p.m. Tuesday, a sheet wrapped around his head.

“We’re hurting, we’re hurting from this, we’re hurting,” the victim’s brother Joseph McClain, 51, told the Daily News by phone from South Carolina on Saturday.

“This is not easy, we trust God that everything will come to past and bring forth the culprit so that we will get justice. We loved our brother.”

The body of Marque McClain (photo) was found after his sister called 911 to report she couldn’t reach him.

Joseph McClain said Marque was a kind and religious man. “He was unique, he was loving, caring and would give you the shirt off his back,” he said.

“He loved God with all his heart. He was a godly man who touched many lives.”

Dozens of others poured out their hearts in condolences posted on Facebook.

“I’m still trying to find the words, I can’t believe my brother is gone,” wrote friend Darrell Cunningham. “I can’t even cry because when I think of him I think of how much he made us laugh and I start laughing!”

Denene Low called McClain her “church husband.”

“Couldn’t really sleep again thinking about my brother, my boy, my best friend, my guy who always made me laugh,” she wrote. “This don’t even feel real to me that you’re gone.”

Another woman wrote: “Marque had me cracking up from the day he and I ever met. The best choir director/song writer and that man was sharp every time I saw him. He could hit that soprano note and not get winded and he cared so much he will be missed.”

The family, mostly residing in in South Carolina, was desperate for detectives to shed more light on what happened, Joseph McClain said.

“We want the truth, we want the facts and we want justice,” he said.

So far, there had been no arrests, police said Saturday.