Ex-con surrenders in fatal shooting of downstairs Bronx neighbor in loud noise dispute

An ex-con wanted for shooting to death his downstairs Bronx neighbor over a long-running argument about noise has surrendered after more than a week on the run, police said Thursday.

Matthew Rushie, 46, showed up Dec. 23 with a lawyer at the 49th Precinct stationhouse and was charged with murder, manslaughter, and possession of a loaded gun. He was arraigned in Bronx Criminal Court the next day and ordered held without bail.

Police say he fatally shot Dillon St. Clair, 39, the evening of Dec. 17 on Morgan Ave. near Arnow Ave. in Pelham Gardens, outside the multi-family home where they both lived.

“The assailant has turned himself in by advisory of his lawyer,” the victim’s mother-in-law wrote in a post on an online fundraiser to cover funeral expenses. “We are grateful for that and hurt and angry that this senseless act even occurred and unexplainably sad that we have to even experience this kind of pain and sadness especially for my grandchildren.”

The suspect was conditionally released by parole in March 2002 after serving 19 months for a weapon conviction. He has also been arrested for robbery in 1993, for rape in 2003 and, more recently, for a stabbing, cops said.

St. Clair, shot in the chest, was rushed by medics to Jacobi Medical Center but could not be saved.

“We were supposed to move two weeks ago and I’m a widow now,” the victim’s distraught wife told CBS New York at the time. “I’m a widow now with four boys. I can’t believe this.”

Police said Rushie and St. Clair lived on different floors of the house and had been arguing for some time about noise.