Woman found dead in Bronx bedroom allegedly beaten to death by son

The woman found dead in her Bronx bedroom this week was bludgeo🐠ned to death by her adult son in a jealousy-fueled rage, cops said.

Steven Castro, 40, was busted in connection to th𓆉e slaying of his 66-year-old mother, Carmen Aponte, whose daughter found her body inside an apartment on Seneca Avenue near Faile Street in Hunts Point around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, authorities said.

Castro — who has been charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of weapon — is accused of striking his mother with an unspecified blunt object, cops said.

Emergency Medical Service workers pronounced Apo🐽nte dead on the scene.

Cops said jealousy was the motive for the slaying, but had no further💯 details.

A 50-year-old next-door neighbor, who only gave his first name, J.P., said his wife reported hearing “a thud.”

“She said, ‘Did you hear that?’ I walked over and I listened through the door,” he said. “I didn’t hear nothing. Within an hour or so, I heard the daughter scream. Soon after the cops came — flooded [the hallway].”

J.P. said he never noticed anything abnormal about tღhe family.

“They were a regular family. They weren’t like hideous, horrible people,” he said. “[The family] didn’t seem like they were untrusting. My [two] daughters never said they had a problem with them.”

Neighbor Zoila Castillo, 47, said she knew the family for 20 ye💫ars and remembered Aponte and Castro as having a good relationship. They would even go to the supermarket together, she said.

“He was with his mother all the time — when he was around, you would see them together,” Castillo said. “You know [how] sometimes you will feel [some] kind of tension? No, never [between them].”

Castro “was a quiet person,” Castillo said.

Lourdes Adams, 59, whoꦆ knew Aponte for mor🐼e than 25 years, said the woman retired last year after working at a nearby school, PS 48, as a paraprofessional.

“For many years she was working in the school. She was helping kids inside the school, outside the school,” Adams said. “This was a surprise to everybody here.

Castro’s arraignment was pending Thursday afternoon. The Bronx district attorney’s office said he was in the hospital, though police could not confirm that detail.