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Bronx man discovered stabbed and burned to death

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A 56-year-old Bronx man was pronounced dead early Saturday after being found with stab wounds to the neck and burns to the body.

Police came across the victim, Gregory Evans, around 6 a.m. upon responding to calls of a fire at his Webster Avenue apartment in Fordham Heights.

Later that day, they arrested Leo Huggins, 48, and charged him with murder, burglary and arson.


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