It happened around 10:45 Thursday night outside a Bronx Boulevard apartment building.
According to investigators, a witness told arriving officers that a group of men beat the victim, forced him into an auto and fled the scene.
A little over an hour later, police say they found the 44-year-old man with his hands bound behind his back outside St. Raymond's Cemetery at Ellison Avenue and Waterbury Street.
He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The medical examiner must determine the cause of death.
His name has not been released.
No arrests have been made.