Bronx man stabbed to death at Tracey Towers, wife found body outside 6th-floor apartment: police

The victim’s wife discovered her husband’s body in their Tracey Towers apartment.

Detectives are looking for the stepson of a 53-year-old Bronx man stabbed to death early Wednesday in the family’s apartment, police said.

The victim’s wife discovered the body of her husband, Jack Hewett, at 12:45 a.m., in the bedroom of their 6th-floor apartment in Tracey Towers on West Mosholu Parkway South. Hewett had been stabbed in the chest, police said.

His wife had moments earlier stepped outside to throw out the garbage. She told police her husband and son had been arguing and that when she returned to the apartment her son had left.