One man was shot and another stabbed in a pair of slayings just four minutes apart in the Bronx, police said Monday.
The bloodshed began when 34-year-old Javon Jones was shot in the back on E. 161st St. near Courtlandt Ave. in Melrose at 9:36 p.m. Sunday, cops said.
Medics took Jones to Lincoln Hospital but he could not be saved. He lived in East Harlem, according to police.
The shooting happened outside the officers of the Bronx Defenders, a non-profit providing legal defense to criminal suspects who can’t afford a private lawyer. The office was closed Sunday night.
Just four minutes later and about two miles away, a 29-year-old man was stabbed multiple times on West Farms Road near Rodman Place in West Farms.
Medics took him to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he died of his wounds, cops said. That victim’s name was not immediately released.
Police have made no arrests in either slaying.
The pair of killings comes less than 24 hours after another Bronx murder: Jonathan Valentin, 29, was shot in the chest on Haviland Ave. near the Cross Bronx Expressway in Castle Hill about 12:15 a.m. Sunday.
Despite the Memorial Day weekend violence, murders and shootings in the Bronx have decreased this year, with 32 slayings and 78 shootings through May 17 compared to 37 killings and 88 shootings in the same time frame last year, NYPD stats show.