{"id":313864,"date":"2026-08-04T23:26:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313864\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T23:26:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:26:44","slug":"man-arrested-for-stabbing-sisters-ex-to-death-on-bronx-street-acted-in-self-defense-lawyer-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313864\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for stabbing sister’s ex to death on Bronx street acted in self-defense, lawyer claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

A young man arrested for stabbing his sister\u2019s abusive ex to death<\/a> on a Bronx street was acting in self-defense, his lawyer says.<\/p>\n

Javid Edwin is accused of stabbing 34-year-old Tyrell Scott<\/a> in the chest during a clash in Riverdale about 5 p.m. July 20.<\/p>\n

Edwin\u2019s sister was getting out of work and meeting her siblings so she could practice driving back to the family\u2019s home in Yonkers, Edwin\u2019s lawyer, Geoffrey St. Andrew Stewart, said during Edwin\u2019s murder arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court just before midnight Monday.<\/p>\n

The siblings were confronted by Scott, who is the father of Edwin\u2019s sister\u2019s unborn child, on Riverdale Ave. near W. 232nd St., the lawyer says.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t come to make peace,\u201d Edwin\u2019s lawyer said of Scott.<\/p>\n

Edwin\u2019s sister had a full order of protection against her ex barring him from her workplace and from contact with her or her family, Edwin\u2019s lawyer said in court. The order stems from two pending domestic violence cases in Yonkers in which Scott was charged with aggravated harassment.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Scott) approached a vehicle that my client arrived in,\u201d Stewart said in court. \u201c(Scott) immediately started arguing with (Edwin), as my client tried to tell him that he shouldn\u2019t be there, that he should leave. He attacked my client and my client had no choice but to defend himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edwin, 21, allegedly stabbed Scott in the chest. Medics rushed Scott to St. Barnabas Hospital<\/a>, where he died two days later.<\/p>\n

Edwin was charged with murder after surrendering with his lawyer Monday at the 50th Precinct stationhouse.<\/p>\n

Stewart noted his client has a thin build and is more than a decade younger than the victim. \u201cOne stab wound, that\u2019s not a person who\u2019s aggressively intentionally trying to kill another person,\u201d he told Judge Philip Pilmar as he argued his client should be granted bail.<\/p>\n

Edwin has worked as a hotel waiter in Tarrytown, N.Y, for nearly a year, Stewart said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s soft-spoken\u201d the lawyer said. \u201cHe\u2019s a very respectful young man.\u201d<\/p>\n

But prosecutors said Edwin has a warrant in Yonkers for a domestic incident involving property damage, a pending New Jersey case involving terroristic threats and a pending Arizona case involving a fake ID.<\/p>\n

Edwin\u2019s lawyer told the judge the victim had a \u201ccompletely wildly combustible relationship\u201d with Edwin\u2019s sister.<\/p>\n

Edwin\u2019s sister ran from the courtroom sobbing and yelling \u201cNo! No! No!\u201d as Judge Philip Pilmar ordered her brother held without bail.<\/p>\n

\u201cFree him,\u201d an uncle of Edwin who declined to give his name told the Daily News. \u201cWe are hard-working people with jobs. It was self-defense. The guy was doing crazy things. [Edwin] didn\u2019t do it for no reason.\u201d<\/p>\n

Assistant District Attorney Christopher Simon said that after the stabbing \u201cthe defendant then left the scene in a car, did not call the police or an ambulance, despite knowing the [victim] had a bleeding stab wound.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edwin\u2019s lawyer acknowledged Edwin did not call 911 but told the judge Edwin\u2019s sister did.<\/p>\n

Stewart also noted in court that the victim had six open criminal cases, including one in Queens in which he was charged with criminal contempt for violating an order of protection in a case involving another woman.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve represented a lot of young men like Tyrell Scott, but I\u2019ve never seen somebody who has six open cases in about five different jurisdictions,\u201d Stewart said in court.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was an abusive ex-boyfriend to my client\u2019s sister. In addition, he unleashed a barrage of vandalism, violence, and threats against his family. He threatened my client in text messages. He threatened my client\u2019s life, he threatened my client\u2019s father\u2019s life. He was, unfortunately, a young man very much out of control.\u201d<\/p>\n

On a prior occasion, Stewart said, Scott was left behind by Edwin\u2019s family at a night club. An enraged Scott then \u201cchased my client and family members in a vehicle, barricaded them in, used bear spray, of all things, to attack them \u2014 all because of the relationship with my client\u2019s sister.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott lived in the Wakefield section of the Bronx, according to cops.<\/p>\n

The stabbing happened\u00a0in front of the building that houses the Bereshit Lifestyle Center, where Elizabeth Baron, 27,\u00a0went into cardiac arrest<\/a>\u00a0just the day before after being injected with\u00a0NAD+, a trendy anti-aging treatment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Baron died later that day, July 19, at a Manhattan hospital. The unlicensed doctor who runs the clinic, Luis Rojas Cabrera, was arrested for practicing without a license and reckless endangerment.\u00a0More serious charges are possible<\/a>\u00a0once Baron\u2019s cause of death is determined by the city Medical Examiner.<\/p>\n

Edwin\u2019s pregnant sister worked in the same building, though it wasn\u2019t clear if she worked at the wellness center or for another business based there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young man arrested for stabbing his sister\u2019s abusive ex to death on a Bronx street was acting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,10,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-313864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","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\/313864","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=313864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}