{"id":222576,"date":"2026-05-06T22:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222576\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T22:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:43:09","slug":"man-with-hatchet-terrorizing-neighbors-in-bronx-apartment-building-residents-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222576\/","title":{"rendered":"Man with hatchet terrorizing neighbors in Bronx apartment building, residents say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bronx tenants say they’re being terrorized by a neighbor armed with a hatchet at all hours of the day.<\/p>\n

Several incidents were caught on camera.<\/p>\n

Videos show neighbor with hatchet<\/p>\n

Some residents at an apartment building on East 214th Street say they’re constantly looking over their shoulders.<\/p>\n

Leonia Clemente says she feels like a prisoner in her own home.<\/p>\n

“Honestly, it’s torture. Every day is something new. We can’t come in and out of the hallways,” she said. “I’m constantly being attacked. I have an order of protection against this man. He’s still constantly attacking me with the order of protection.”<\/p>\n

“He’ll come out with a weapon. He’ll wave it at you,” neighbor Alexandra Reina said. “We’re not safe in the building. He walks around naked. We got children that live in the building.”<\/p>\n

Residents shared videos with CBS News New York showing their neighbor at all hours of the day and night, at times wearing a wig, knocking on their doors, breaking their doorbell cameras and waving a hatchet at their doorsteps.<\/p>\n

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Bronx tenants say they’re being terrorized by a neighbor armed with a hatchet at all hours of the day.<\/p>\n

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Zahara Cardwell described what she’s been going through as “pure hell.”<\/p>\n

“He threatened me last year, actually, where I actually had to get an order of protection on him because he pulled a hatchet on me,” she said.<\/p>\n

Management trying to evict tenant<\/p>\n

Neighbors claim he also intentionally left gas burners on, forcing fire crews to shut off gas in the entire building.<\/p>\n

According to police, the 28-year old was arrested twice in April for criminal mischief after breaking a neighbor’s front door camera and for menacing after swinging a metal rail at another neighbor.<\/p>\n

Clemente said she would feel safer in the building if he was gone.<\/p>\n

“So we can sleep at night,” she said. “It’s very scary because I have kids, you know, I have a granddaughter.”<\/p>\n

CBS News New York reached out to building management. We’re told they’re in the process of evicting that tenant. Court proceedings began last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bronx tenants say they’re being terrorized by a neighbor armed with a hatchet at all hours of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-222576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}