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Grisly love triangle

Cops: Bronx man killed rival, ditched him in duffel

- BY LEONARD GREENE AND GRAHAM RAYMAN

A Bronx man is charged with killing a romantic rival, stuffing the man’s body in a duffel bag and leaving it outside a Westcheste­r County bank.

Christophe­r Myrie, 48, was arrested Thursday for stabbing and then ditching Desean Cortez-Seaborne, whose corpse was found by a busy Wells Fargo bank on Odell Ave. in Yonkers on Nov. 19.

The 24-year-old Portsmouth, Va., man was discovered by a horrified bank employee, who called cops.

Myrie (photo) snuffed out CortezSeab­orne’s life by stabbing him in the stomach, neck and back inside his Schieffeli­n Ave. apartment in Edenwald, prosecutor­s said.

Sources said the victim was romantical­ly involved with Jonisha Graham, sparking a feud with Myrie.

After the grisly murder, Myrie and Graham, 30, stripped the victim, wrapped him in a tarp and jammed his corpse into Myrie’s bedroom closet, authoritie­s said.

Over the next three days, prosecutor­s say the couple used Pine-Sol, bleach and paint thinner to clean the crime scene inside Myrie’s fourth-floor apartment in the Baychester Houses.

On Nov. 18, the pair placed Cortez-Seaborne in plastic bags, shoved him in a duffel bag and drove to Yonkers, where they dumped the body, according to court records.

Myrie is charged with murder, manslaught­er, hindering prosecutio­n and concealmen­t of a corpse. He was remanded after his arraignmen­t in Bronx Criminal Court late Thursday.

Graham is also charged with hindering prosecutio­n, concealmen­t of a human corpse and tampering with evidence, authoritie­s said.

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