The famous jazz drummer Lawrence Leathers found dead in the Bronx

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NEW YORK (AP) – Jazz drummer noted Lawrence Leathers was found dead in front of a Bronx apartment.

Police said Leathers, 37, was found Sunday in a stairwell in front of the apartment he shared with 41-year-old Lisa Harris.

Police said Leathers was involved in a physical conflict with Harris and a man. They say that Harris hit him and that the 28-year-old man, Sterling Aguilar, of Brooklyn, placed him in a choking.

Leathers was declared dead on the scene.

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Lawrence Leathers in live concert at the Cité de la musique on September 5, 2015 in Paris, France. (Photo by Paul CHARBIT / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant (C) performs with pianist Aaron Diehl, bassist Paul Sikivie and drummer Lawrence Leathers at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island on August 1, 2015. AFP PHOTO Eva HAMBACH / Getty Images

NEW YORK, NY – JULY 2: (LR) Jazz musicians Ryan Scott, Yasushi Nakamura, Dominick Farinacci, Zaccai Curtis, Keita Ogawa and Lawrence Leathers pose for a photo before their performance at the Lincoln Center's Coca-Cola Jazz Center. Lincoln Center, in July 2, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin / Getty Images)

LAWRENCE LEATHERS plays drums for CELIA MCLORIN at the MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL (Photo by Craig Lovell / Corbis via Getty Images)

Harris and Aguilar were arrested Monday on charges of assault. It was not clear if they had lawyers.

Leathers, from Lansing, Michigan, has worked on two Grammy Award-winning Cecile McLorin Salvant albums, which posted a link on Leathers on Instagram.

Drummer E.J. Strickland remembered Leathers on Instagram as "one of the most musical, swingers and the most honest drummers out there."

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