A Brooklyn mother who was later found stabbed to death inside her Park Slope home had repeatedly warned neighbours that her daughter was hearing voices and behaving erratically before the suspectedmurder-suicide, according to people living on the block.
Police believe 23-year-old Kayla Wilson fatally stabbed her mother, 59-year-old Olga Bracero, before taking her own life on Saturday evening inside the family's brownstone on Second Street,the New York Post reported.Officers responding to a 911 call shortly before 8 pm discovered both women dead from multiple stab wounds at the scene.
Deshawn Jackson, a neighbour who said he had grown close to Bracero and Wilson over several years, claimed the mother had repeatedly asked him for help as her daughter's mental condition worsened.
Standing outside the brownstone on Sunday, Jackson recalled frantic calls from Bracero, who allegedly feared Wilson could become dangerous.
'The mother told me that [Wilson] had smoked some bad marijuana and after that just wasn't the same,' Jackson said.
According to him, Bracero later described her daughter as 'fighting demons' and hearing voices 'telling her to do bad things'.
Jackson claimed Wilson had been hospitalised after suffering what he described as severemental health episodesand was later prescribed medication before returning home.
The situation, he said, remained volatile.
'The mother called me and said, "She's walking around the house with a knife, can you please come get her?"' Jackson told reporters.
He alleged Wilson regularly carried a knife in her pocket.
Source: International Business Times UK
