NYC murder-suicide victim begged neighbor for help with daughter ‘fighting demons’: ‘Telling her to do bad things’

A “sweet” Park Slope mom killed by her daughter in a grisly slay-suicide had been terrified of the younger woman, who was “fighting demons’’ and toted around a knife in her pocket, a neighbor said Sunday.
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Deshawn Jackson said the tragic 59-year-old mother, a vegan chef who law-enforcement sources identified as Olga Bracero, would desperately call him for help over her disturbed 23-year-old daughter Kayla Wilson, who she believed was having severe mental issues because of drugs.

Olga Bracero (left) and Kayla Wilson were found dead in their Park Slope home Saturday.Facebook/Olga Bracero

NYPD, ESU and EMTs rush to the scene of the fatal stabbing at 386 Second St. in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn.William Miller for NY Post
The pair were “good people,’’ Jackson said outside the doomed pair’s Brooklyn brownstone in the trendy tree-lined neighborhood

But “after this Jamaican trip they went on, everything changed,” he said.

Wilson struggled with mental-health issues, close friends said.Facebook/Olga Bracero

The mom and daughter visited Jamaica at one point, according to a Facebook post in 2020.Facebook/Olga Bracero
“The mother told me that [Wilson] had smoked some bad marijuana and after that just wasn’t the same.“[Bracero] had called me and told me that ‘[Wilson is] fighting demons and they were telling her to do bad things, can you please come help me?’ ” he said.

He claimed that Wilson suffered from schizophrenia, had been in and out of hospitals and “would tell me that the voices in her head are telling her to do it.

Medical examiners remove a body on a stretcher from the crime scene.Kyle Mazza/Shutterstock
“We ended up putting her in the hospital to get help, she was on medication,’’ Jackson said. “She was there for two weeks.”

But then when she got out, “The mother called me and said, ‘She’s walking around the house with a knife, can you please come get her?’ ”

Jackson said the younger woman would routinely stash the weapon in her pocket.

His daughter, Chaasadahyah, said, “I saw her two days ago, just walking, totally zoned out, not listening to music or nothing.

Kayla’s mother told a pal that the young woman was battling “demons” and begged him for help.Facebook/Olga Bracero

Both women were pronounced dead at the scene.William Miller for NY Post
“She was just walking here in the street. I saw her by the supermarket,” the 27-year-old grad student said.

Shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday, police responded to the address over a report of an unresponsive female and found both women dead from multiple stab wounds.

They were pronounced dead at the scene. Sources said investigators believe that Wilson killed her mom then turned the knife on herself.

The grisly stabbings came two years after another murder-suicide in the building, located at 386 Second St.

In January 2024, cook Jason Jackson fatally shot his partner, financial planner Olga Kirshenbaum, then shot himself dead.

“This building has a curse on it,” neighbor Christine Doyle, 58, told The Post on Sunday.

As for Bracero, “She was so sweet, she really was,” Doyle said.

Jackson also called Olga “just a beautiful, well-spoken person.”

Chaasadahyah said Bracero and Wilson had no other  family in the area and had adopted the Jacksons as a surrogate clan.
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“She loved my family,” Chaasadahyah said. “We went to a restaurant here for her birthday party. She was basically part of the family.”

Jackson said, “You never thought this would happen.

“I broke down. I cried,” he said. “It hit hard. It hit really hard.”