Held in Brooklyn stab slay, her 4th attack
A MENTALLY ILL woman with a history of attacking men — using a knife, a screwdriver and a malt liquor bottle — finally escalated to murder, stabbing her boyfriend to death in Brooklyn, police said.
Cops were called to the Roosevelt Houses in BedfordStuyvesant around 3:30 a.m. Sunday. They found Ramel Patterson mortally wounded, stabbed in the neck and arm.
“I didn’t think she would kill my son,” said the victim’s sobbing mother, Patricia Scott.
Accused killer Octavia Elliott, 31, struggled with mental illness, Scott said. Patterson encouraged her to stay on her meds, the grieving mom said.
“Sometimes she took her medicine, sometimes she didn’t. He would tell her, ‘You have to take it,’ ” said Scott, 49.
Scott said she warned Elliott as recently as Friday to stay on her medication.
“I was like, ‘You have to take your medicine. My son is telling you to. He loves you . . .”
Officers responding to a 911 call found Patterson in a fifthfloor hallway. Medics rushed the man to Kings County Hospital, but he could not be saved.
Elliott’s criminal record reveals a history of violence. She has 10 arrests in New York City alone, authorities said.
She allegedly used a screwdriver to stab her child’s father three times in the hand, face and back in 2013 in Brooklyn. She was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
Elliott was busted for assault in Brooklyn in 2007 for smashing a Colt 45 malt liquor bottle over a man’s head when they got into an argument while she was rolling a joint, according to police.
Elliott was also arrested in Nevada in 2014 for stabbing her child’s father in the hand with a knife, according to a report in the Pahrump Valley Times. It wasn’t clear if the Nevada victim was the same person as the one in the other attacks.
Neighbors heard arguing from the Brooklyn apartment early Sunday and called 911. Elliott tossed the knife she allegedly used in the stabbing out the window. Police found the knife and arrested the woman in her apartment.
She was charged with seconddegree murder and criminal possession of a weapon.
A relative who went to check on Patterson found blood trailing from the elevator to the apartment he shared with his girlfriend, Scott said.
Her son was always smiling, she said. His red and black Kawasaki motorcycle was his pride and joy. “This was his life,” she said, pointing to the bike.
“He loved to dance. He loved his motorcycle. He would tell me, ‘Ma, I love my motorcycle.’ I told him, ‘You have to make a choice, me or this motorcycle.’ And he would say, ‘Mom, this motorcycle,’ ” Scott laughed. “He would say, ‘I love you, but my motorcycle comes first.’ ”
Scott said her son was particularly close to his grandmother, who had also warned Elliott to keep her hands off him.
“My mother looked her in the eyes and said, ‘I’m gonna tell you something . . . Whatever you do, don’t hurt my son. Don’t stab my son,’ ” she said. “If you were fighting, arguing, you can call the cops and have him locked up, but you don’t kill my child. I wouldn’t kill anybody’s child.”