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Bronx teen’s gory gun-&-bludgeon mom death ‘confess’

GRIM: Darwin Jackson allegedly killed mom Tihesha Savage and dumped her with the trash (above).

GRIM: Darwin Jackson allegedly killed mom Tihesha Savage and dumped her with the trash (above). (Tomas E. Gaston)

Tihesha Savage

Tihesha Savage

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No mercy for Mom.

A coldblooded Bronx teen admitted in chilling detail that he shot his own mother in the head as she slumbered — and then, as she lay in pain, grabbed a baseball bat and finished her off, officials said yesterday.

Dee “Darwin” Jackson, 16, confessed to the brutal murder of Tihesha Savage, 34, to a police detective Wednesday, hours after her remains were discovered in a Dumpster steps from the family’s apartment building, Bronx prosecutors said.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Bronx Supreme Court yesterday, Jackson said his mother was asleep when he shot her in the head.

“After I fired, I saw her body twitch. She tried to get up, and then I started hitting her in the head with a wooden bat numerous times,” the complaint reads.

Investigators believe Jackson’s 7-year-old sister, Ashley, was in the family’s Mount Eden apartment as he wrapped his mother’s bloody body in a Scooby-Doo blanket, stuffed her in a plastic bin and carried her across a busy street to leave with the trash.

A building superintendent discovered the body within hours and called police.

The motive? The teen had argued with his mom over his late-night outings, sources said.

But friends and neighbors said Jackson’s troubles ran deeper, describing a simmering anger that bubbled out in frequent arguments with his mother.

“Everything about him, he kept to himself,” said one of Jackson’s friends, Naiquon Mechey, 17.

“We didn’t want to get involved in something we didn’t understand, because the one word could push the wrong button.”

Mechey described Jackson, a muscular teen who practiced boxing and played basketball, as “a quiet, angry person.”

“He’d come to play ball, stay for a few minutes and then he was gone,” he said. “He doesn’t ask anyone to come with him, doesn’t ask anyone for help.”

Just after the police arrived, Jackson was spotted on the street, stoic and clear-eyed, as he watched crime-scene investigators work around the carnage. By his side was Ashley, her hair neatly braided. The pair left together in the back of a police car.

Jackson was arraigned in Bronx Supreme Court yesterday and pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, manslaughter and a weapons charge. He was held without bail.

Several neighbors said Savage and her son had heated arguments, often about his friends and late hours.

Jackson has two prior arrests for marijuana but no known history of violence.

“We’ve known him since he was little, but he never did anything bad,” said Alma Franko, 52, who lives in the same building.