NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — An ex-con was arrested for fatally shooting his downstairs neighbor in the Bronx following a lengthy dispute with him about noise, police said Thursday.
Matthew Rushie, 46, surrendered to the 49th Precinct stationhouse on Dec. 23 with an attorney, the Daily News reported. He was charged with murder, manslaughter and possession of a loaded gun, police said.
The next day, he was arraigned in Bronx Criminal Court and ordered held without bail.
On the evening of Dec. 17, Dillon St. Clair was shot in the chest on Morgan Avenue near Arnow Avenue in Pelham Gardens, reportedly outside the multi-family home where they both lived.
Clair was rushed to NYC Health & Hospitals/Jacobi, where he was pronounced dead.
"The assailant has turned himself in by advisory of his lawyer," Clair's mother-in-law wrote in a post on an online fundraiser to cover funeral expenses. "We are grateful for that and hurt and angry that this senseless act even occurred and unexplainably sad that we have to even experience this kind of pain and sadness especially for my grandchildren."
Rushie was conditionally released on parole in March 2002 after serving 19 months for a weapon conviction, according to the report. He was also arrested for robbery in 1993, rape in 2003, and, more recently, a stabbing.
Police told the outlet that Rushie and St. Clair lived on different floors of the house and had been arguing for some time about noise.
At the time, St. Clair's wife told CBS 2 that they "were supposed to move [in] two weeks," adding that she's "a widow now."
"I'm a widow now with four boys," she said. "I can't believe this."
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