MENTALLY-ILL MOM ‘LOVED’ SLAIN KIDS
Sis grieves over infant twins found in Qns.
A mentally-ill Queens mom was charged Friday with the gruesome murders of her 6-week-old twins, one day after cops found her sitting quietly in her apartment with the tiny bodies, police said.
Accused killer Danezja Kilpatrick, 23, faces additional charges of acting in a manner injurious to a child and criminal possession of a weapon in the slayings of son Dallas and daughter Dakota, whose arrivals were greeted with joy just last month by devastated family members now left to ponder how things went so horribly wrong.
“She loved them,” the murder suspect’s distraught sister Quanteya Kilpatrick told the Daily News Friday. “She never gave me a feeling that she didn’t. She always suffered from (mental illness) but I never saw her struggle with it while the babies were there.”
The children were found dead by police inside their Woodside Houses apartment Thursday afternoon, with little Dallas — a knife in his head — lying inside his bassinet in a rear bedroom.
The mom directed officers to the cabinet beneath a sink where police found Dakota swaddled in a blanket and stuffed inside a plastic bag.
Kilpatrick, who was sitting on a bed inside the home when cops arrived, offered just a single sentence about the heartbreaking scene.
“I do not want them,” she told the officers of her babies.
Kilpatrick did not speak when she was led from the 114th Precinct stationhouse in Astoria shortly after 9 p.m. Friday and placed in a waiting car. Her arraignment was pending in Queens Criminal Court.
While Quanteya Kilpatrick said she never thought Danezja would injure the the kids, she recalled something seemed wrong with her sister on the day of the killings. After Danezja blocked her calls Thursday morning, the elder sibling went to Queens — where her sister initially locked her out.
“As soon as I walked in I knew something was off,” recalled the 39-year-old Quanteya. “Something was giving me bad vibes ... There were no baby clothes, no baby bottles. She told me the babies were with their father.”
The suspect’s concerned cousin Keywona Llanos, an NYPD housing officer, then called 911 following her own worrisome conversation with the mother, cops said.
The mom had recently moved to Queens from Yonkers, where police confirmed a May 2, 2018, incident where she allegedly punched her sister repeatedly in the head and body.
The complaint said Kilpatrick was “nonresponsive and appeared to be highly agitated” when police arrived, and the sister declined to press charges.
The medical examiner said initial autopsies on the two helpless victims were inconclusive, with additional investigation to follow.
After the the grim Thursday afternoon discoveries of the bodies, the weeping Llanos asked the public to keep the family in their prayers.
“This is really a tragedy for the whole family. I don’t know what to say,” said the devastated housing officer. “I’m at a loss for words.”
Quanteya Kilpatrick remembered cuddling her niece and nephew during her frequent visits to the home as she struggled to come to grips with the arrest of her sister and the shocking loss of the two infants.
“I just don’t know what happened,” she said. “I loved them so much. They were the best. I would have done anything for them.”