New York Daily News

Surrender, killer!

Kin’s tears, rage in hunt for kids’ butcher

- BYJOSEPH STEPANSKY and THOMAS TRACY

THE OUTRAGED family of the mom murdered in a Staten Island hotel for the homeless along with two of her baby daughters demanded Thursday her killer turn himself in.

“Give yourself up. You have no business doing a thing like this,” Cutler’s uncle James Mathis (photo below) told the Daily News on Thursday. “The kids ... the kids didn’t do nothing to you.”

Cops are hunting for Michael (Da Kid) Sykes — the father of Cutler’s slain youngest child — for the bloody triple killing at the Ramada Inn on North Gannon Ave. in Willowbroo­k Wednesday.

The sole survivor was 2-year-old Miracle, who was listed in critical but stable condition at Richmond University Medical Center.

In a tearful scene at the hospital, little Miracle was conscious, alert, and talking to family members, said a police source.

Miracle repeatedly asked for her grandma, so cops brought her to the hospital to sit with the tot, the source said.

“She’s OK...she's going to make it,” the source said. “She was really y missing the grandmothe­r.”

Sources said that after spending Wednesday morning with Cutler and her three girls, Sykes allegedly barged into her r room and began hacking away.

The day before, he had flown into a jeal- ous rage and accused her of seeing the fa- ther of one of the other kids, sources said.

Cutler, who had moved to the shelter in December, was the first to die of her r wounds. Her two daughters — 1-year-old Ziana and 4-month-old Maliyah — soon followed.

“They’re coming along with it,” Mathis s said, when asked how his family was cop- ing with the loss. “It’s not easy, but they’re e bearing with it.”

Investigat­ors have surveillan­ce footage showing Sykes getting on a Staten Island Ferry and disembarki­ng in lower Manhattan shortly after the fatal knifing.

After the murders, he called his mother, confessed to the killings,, and threatened to take his own life, , sources said.

Cops are scouring the city for r Sykes, who may be back in his s home turf of Brooklyn, po-

lice sources said.

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