Ex-con is nabbed in Yule stab slay

A violent ex-con has been arrested for stabbing a 34-year-old man to death during a Christmas clash outside a troubled Brooklyn public housing development, police said Tuesday.

Monie Jackson, 58, was busted Monday for the slaying of Aaron Cherry outside the Red Hook Houses on Saturday night.

Cherry was knifed in the neck near Bush St. and Otsego St. just before midnight Saturday. Medics rushed him to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, but he could not be saved.

The victim lived in another building at the sprawling housing complex, police said. His death marks the sixth homicide at the Red Hook Houses in 18 months.

Investigators quickly identified Jackson as the stabber but the motive for the killing is not clear.

Jackson lives in the Rockaways in Queens, according to cops. He is charged with murder and weapon possession. He was arraigned

Tuesday in Brooklyn Criminal Court and ordered held without bail.

He’s been sent to prison three times since 1985, according to court records. His last prison stint ended in 2012 after he served 13 years for stabbing a man five times during a fight in the Rockaways in 1994.

Jackson violated his parole and was sent back to prison in 2018 after he was again arrested on an assault charge, court records show. He ultimately was released from prison on Oct. 17, 2019.

He also served five years in prison for attempted robbery in 1985 and seven months for attempted sexual abuse in 1992, court records show.

After Cherry’s death, heartbroken friends flooded social media.

“He was always good to me and I to him,” friend Derek Alberto Jones wrote in a Facebook tribute.

“Another unnecessary death happened last night ON CHRISTMAS and I hope justice will be served really soon.”

“We just keep losing loved ones R.I.P.,” another friend wrote on the social media platform. “May God cover your family in this hard time.”