By Christina Santucci
A Jamaica woman and her two young daughters were found stabbed to death Sunday evening by her 12-year-old cousin and other relatives in an apartment the extended family shared on Sutphin Boulevard, relatives said.
Deisy Garcia, 21, and her daughters, 2-year-old Daniela Meija and 1-year-old Yaslin Meija, had all suffered multiple stab wounds inside the second-floor flat on Sutphin Boulevard near 90th Avenue, the NYPD said.
Romeo Chuc said he arrived home around 5 p.m. Sunday with his 12-year-old and 10-year-old sons, and the door to the room that his niece Garcia shared with her husband and the toddlers was closed.
“My son said, ‘Why do the babies not come and play in the living room?’” Chuc said, explaining that he thought the children were probably sleeping. “After that my baby says, ‘I have to go inside. I have to check what happened.’”
Chuc said when his older son, Rene, opened the door around 7 p.m., he spotted the two toddlers on the floor with their faces covered by a blanket. Garcia was also on the floor with what relatives believe was a new kitchen knife by her side, said Chuc’s wife Sara Alvarado, who is Garcia’s aunt Sara Alvarado.
“I cannot understand what happened,” Chuc said.
The family had no idea what time the mother and daughters were killed.
Police named Garcia’s husband, Miguel Mejia-Ramos, as a suspect in the killings Monday afternoon and said they were trying to find him. Mejia-Ramos was known to drive a white 2001 Chevrolet commercial van with a license plate number of 22128MD and a white 1995 Dodge Suburban with a license plate number of GHS2798, according to cops.
Relatives said Garcia was originally from Guatemala and was studying English at York College.
Meijia-Ramos, 28, is originally from Mexico, and the couple’s daughters were both born in the United States, her family said.
“They have no problems,” Chuc said when asked about the relationship between Garcia and Ramos.
Relatives were unsure what Ramos did for a living and the family did not know where he was.
“He was a good boy, a good guy,” Fabian Bulux translated for Alvarado, who spoke mostly in Spanish. “He was quiet but not rude.”
Alvarado described her niece as a good mother.
“She was a good person. She was a Christian. She went to church,” she said with help from Bulux. “She cares for her two daughters.”
Alvarado broke down in tears several times while describing her niece to reporters on Sutphin Boulevard, and was comforted by a friend as she yelled “Deisy” over and over.
No arrests had been made in connection with the deaths as of Monday morning, according to cops.
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