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YouTube Actor Found Stabbed to Death in NYC Apartment: NYPD

Cops claim the man had a stab wound to his back

What to Know

  • An actor who appeared in a YouTube crime show has been found stabbed to death in his Bronx apartment.
  • Authorities say Tyrone Fleming was found dead around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
  • Fleming played Tye Banga on "848," a web series with nearly 20,000 subscribers.

An actor who appeared in a YouTube crime show has been found stabbed to death in his Bronx apartment, police say.

The NYPD says 40-year-old Tyrone Fleming’s girlfriend went to his Morris Heights apartment on University Avenue to check in on him when he didn't show up to work at Con Edison. She found his lifeless body blocking the front door of his home. Police said he had a stab wound to his back.

He was pronounced dead at a local hospital. 

Sources familiar with the investigation tell News 4 that there is surveillance video of a man entering, and later leaving, Fleming’s apartment, but the sources said it’s not clear what, if any, role he played in Fleming’s mysterious death.

Fleming, a father of two, played Tye Banga on "848," a web series with nearly 20,000 subscribers on YouTube. 

His family wondered Thursday if his fame had anything to do with his brutal death. 

"It was never any beef with him," said his sister Tiffany Tucker. "That's why we're like, 'Who would do this?' Was it jealousy, envy? What was it?"

A neighbor said Fleming was "a sweet guy, he didn't bother no one." 

Tucker recalled her last conversation with Fleming: "I told him, 'I love you,' and the last thing he said to me is, 'I love you, too, little sis.'" 

A medical examiner will determine Fleming’s cause of death. No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.

A memorial with candles was seen early Thursday outside Fleming’s apartment building. Fleming had a 15-year-old son and a 10-year-old daughter. 

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