Bronx man fatally shot just a block away from fatal road rage stabbing day earlier

A 30-year-old Bronx man was fatally shot during a clash a block away from where a man was stabbed to death following a road-rage crash a day earlier, cops said Thursday.

Jonathan Cameron was blasted multiple times all over his body on Loring Place near W. Burnside Ave. in Morris Heights just before 10 p.m. Wednesday, cops said. A 19-year-old man with him was beaten.

Both victims were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where Cameron died. The younger victim was expected to recover.

Cameron’s adoptive mother was washing her hair late Wednesday night when a neighbor knocked on her door and told her of the young man’s fate.

“I couldn’t believe it,” said mom Regina Cameron, 65. “I just closed my door slowly, and I was just numb. I don’t know to scream, to cry, to jump, to run. I don’t know what to do.”

The woman raced to the hospital, but when she arrived Cameron’s biological father and other family members were already standing over his dead body.

“I kissed him on his head, and his head was cold,” she told the Daily News. “I told him I’m gonna miss him and everything. I love him … just shock.”

Cameron was shot about three blocks from the home where he spent most of his childhood after being fostered by Regina Cameron.

“I just kept him all the time as my own son,” she said. “So he’s my son.”

Cameron spent his early childhood years in Morris Heights, but when his parents became unable to take care of him, he went into the foster care system.

Regina Cameron officially adopted him when he was 11. The heartbroken woman recalled how as a child, Cameron helped her with other kids she fostered.

“[He would say] listen, don’t talk to my mother like that,” said Regina Cameron. “I wasn’t his mother, but he’s still respecting me and loved me like I was his biological mother.”

Cameron moved out of the home about six years ago but would often come back to spend time with his adoptive mother.

“He was just a cool kid — one who was respectful of any adult,” said Regina Cameron. “He was a good kid.”

Cameron worked odd jobs and most recently did deliveries and supply pickups for a company, according to his mother. He had at least 10 siblings, she added.

No arrests have been made in his death.

“Nobody complained about him,” Regina Cameron said of people in the neighborhood. “The person shot him that many times, that was ridiculous. Why that many times? I don’t know.”

The shooting occurred about a block from W. Tremont Ave. and Phelan Place, where at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday Ronald Gomez Mesa, 29, was stabbed to death after a teen and a woman got into a minor fender bender, cops said.

The woman called her boyfriend, who was getting in the face of the teenage driver when Gomez Mesa and other onlookers “begin to take sides,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Wednesday.

“[The stabber] begins to argue with the driver, the crowd turns on him and begins to throw items, striking him in the head,” Kenny said. “He, then, in turn, turns around and starts stabbing someone in the crowd.”

The stabber ran off and is being sought by police.

There is currently no evidence the two homicides are connected, police said.

“You hear these things,” Regina Cameron said of the earlier slaying. “What you don’t expect is it to come to your family. It hasn’t really hit me yet.”