Grisly love triangle
Cops: Bronx man killed rival, ditched him in duffel
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.