Heartbroken family of the 11-month and 3-year-old boys discovered fatally stabbed in an overflowing Bronx bathtub say their mom, suspected of killing them, is obsessive about demons.
“They were beautiful children and they did not deserve to die. It’s simple as that,” Beverly Hill, the paternal grandmother of 11-month-old sufferer Octavius Canada instructed the Daily News. “They were beautiful and they had no reason to die.”
Cops imagine the boys’ mom, Dimone “Brenda” Fleming, stabbed them to dying. Fleming, 22, is present process psychiatric care and has not but been charged.
Octavius and his 3-year-old sibling, Daishawn Fleming, have been discovered repeatedly stabbed within the neck and torso Saturday evening in a household shelter on Echo Place close to the Grand Concourse in Mount Hope, police sources stated.
Octavius’ great-aunt, Casey Canada, stated Fleming had been speaking obsessively about “demons.”
“She thought the kids were devils. She said she was afraid of them,” stated Casey Canada, who sorted each boys and raised their father, Columbus Canada, like a second mom.
But Casey Canada was baffled why Fleming would allegedly take her kids’s lives.
“She definitely loved them for sure,” Casey Canada stated. “That wasn’t fake.”
Fleming, who goes by the nickname “Brenda,” clashed along with her personal family and Canada’s household, Casey Canada stated.
“There wasn’t a moment I was around her she wasn’t loving with the children — but with adults she could change in a moment,” the great-aunt stated. “She just snapped.”
Police have been initially referred to as to the scene as a result of Fleming was performing erratically however didn’t discover the younger kids, who have been submerged in a bath lined with garments and a mattress sheet, sources stated.
Octavius’ father, Columbus Canada, arrived minutes after police left and located the children, then desperately tried to revive them earlier than police returned.
Columbus has three different kids from prior relationships who have been all near the murdered boys, his mom stated.
“How is he going to tell them? They’ve gotten close to these other children, to their brothers,” Hill stated. “They can’t understand.”
“(Columbus) is not doing well at all. He can’t get over the fact that she did this. He don’t even understand what happened. Who would do something like this?” Hill added. “The whole family is like, ‘Why?’ If you got a problem, you could have said something to somebody. You don’t have to f—ing kill the kids.”
Canada works dutifully to assist his kids, Hill stated, and his household barely had the prospect to get to know little Octavius.
“They liked to play with cars, they liked to play with trucks, they liked video games. They liked to go to school and play with crayons,” Canada’s sister Shakira Canada stated of the 2 slain boys. “They liked to go to the park. And now they can’t do any of that.”
Casey Canada helped elevate her nephew Columbus, describing herself as like a second mother to him, and loved visits from him and the 2 slain boys.
“Octavius would never cry — and you know babies, they cry about everything. … He was a happy go-lucky happy baby,” Casey Canada stated. “Daishawn just wanted to play with toys. When he came over, he just wanted to play with blocks.”
Hill stated she didn’t need to speculate on Fleming’s motives.
“I don’t know and I don’t care. All I know is that my grandkids are f—ing dead,” she stated.
“They shouldn’t have died. That shouldn’t have happened. And her a– ain’t dead. She should have killed her own f—ing self.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”