Male model Dynus Saxon officially charged with murder, held without bail in Bronx fatal stabbing

Three months ago, male exemplary Dynus Saxon confidently strutted down the reddish carpet astatine the premiere of the superhero smash “Deadpool & Wolverine.” It was 1 of respective reddish carpet rides the steely eyed, square-jawed stunner had made implicit the past fewer years arsenic his modeling vocation blossomed.

He struck a acold little assured airs precocious Friday arsenic helium stood softly earlier a Bronx Criminal Court judge, accused of execution for stabbing a young begetter to decease successful a friend’s apartment.

Sporting a grimy, high-end brownish sweater, nylon parachute pants and a ample bandage implicit his close hand, the towering Saxon said thing and appeared subdued arsenic a justice ordered him held without bail.

Saxon, 20, is accused of fatally knifing Kadeem Grant successful the cervix and thorax arsenic his unfortunate dozed connected a sofa successful the tiny Mott Haven flat connected Grand Concourse adjacent E. 144th St.

The exemplary was visiting the flat erstwhile helium attacked Grant without immoderate evident provocation, constabulary sources said.

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Male exemplary Dynus Saxon was arraigned successful Bronx Criminal Court connected Nov. 15 for a stabbing murder. (Kerry Burke/New York Daily News)

Saxon “got up and got a weapon and went aft the guy,” the tenant told constabulary aft the Nov. 10 attack.

Responding cops recovered Grant, 35, dead, the weapon inactive sticking retired of his chest.

Saxon was arrested astatine the scene. He was bleeding from a heavy gash to his close manus that helium incurred from repeatedly jamming the weapon into Grant’s chest, prosecutors said.

He was concisely hospitalized and underwent a intelligence valuation earlier showing up astatine tribunal with his injured manus conspicuously bandaged.

Cops charged him with murder, manslaughter and weapons possession. He’s expected to instrumentality to tribunal and reply the charges connected Dec. 3.

While successful custody, Saxon’s archetypal telephone was to his mother.

“I was his idiosyncratic that [Saxon] wanted to telephone from the hospital,” his mom, who didn’t stock her name, told the Daily News Tuesday. “There’s a batch that it perchance could beryllium and I conscionable benignant of got to hold to spot what is said.”

Saxon couldn’t retrieve what happened erstwhile helium spoke to his mother, she said.

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As the Daily News reported successful its Nov. 13 front-page story, Dynus Saxon’s stunned parent told the paper her lad is “not an aggressor.” Saxon is charged with fatally stabbing a antheral arsenic helium was sleeping.

“I don’t cognize what happened, but I tin archer y’all based connected what I bash know, that it’s not going to beryllium arsenic elemental arsenic you privation to marque it,” she said. “Dynus didn’t conscionable determine to execution somebody.”

Neither Saxon nor Grant lived successful the flat wherever the sidesplitting took place. Saxon knows the tenant, who besides knows Grant, constabulary sources said.

Detectives judge astatine slightest 2 of the men were progressive successful a intersexual narration but it was unclear which two. Cops are investigating the anticipation of a emotion triangle but besides judge Saxon whitethorn person conscionable snapped with nary motive.

Saxon, of East Harlem, has appeared successful Vogue Italia, L’Officiel Baltic and advertisement campaigns for Levi’s.  After learning of his arrest, Dot Models New York, which represented Saxon, pulled his images disconnected the company’s website.

Grant’s heartbroken father, who was traveling to New York from his location successful Florida connected Tuesday to woody with the tragedy, told The News his lad had a 3-year-old daughter.

“He was conscionable a loving kid who was determination for his household and his daughter,” Christopher Grant said. “It’s conscionable bittersweet that she has to turn up without a father.”