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Man, 30, found beaten to death outside Bronx home

A man was brutally beaten to death at his Bronx home, police said Sunday.
Cops responding to a frantic 911 call about an assault around 6:10 p.m. on Saturday found Kristopher Samaroo, 30, mortally wounded with blunt force trauma to his body outside his home on the Throgs Neck Expressway, near Barkley Ave in Throgs Neck.
Samaroo’s wife made the 911 call, police sources told the Daily News.
Medics took Samaroo to Jacobi Medical Center, but he couldn’t be saved.
Neighbors told The News they heard a loud argument the same day as the  killing.
“Yesterday he was fighting. I heard shouting, that’s it,” said next-door neighbor Nalmul Islam, 38.
Islam told The News he hears “regular shouting” from Samaroo’s house every two or three months, and “that’s why I showed no interest … that’s why I didn’t take interest.”
Another neighbor, an 85-year-old man who didn’t give his name, added: “I heard an argument but I mind my own business.”
“In these five months I’ve been living here, three times I heard fighting out there,” the man added.
Samaroo lived with his brother, who is the building’s tenant, Islam said.
Islam, who said he moved into the neighborhood last year, called it a quiet block where people don’t hang around outside, or open fire hydrants in the summer.
“It’s a very nice [neighborhood], he said. “The school is very nice.”
Cops have made no arrests.
Samaroo’s killing marks the fourth homicide this year in the 45th Precinct, which saw five slayings in all of 2023, according to NYPD statistics.

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