A 91-year-old Brooklyn man and his daughter had their throats fatally slashed by her younger boyfriend — who eerily told their kin afterward, “You know what happened,’’ cops and sources said Monday.
Kerry Lewis, 46, was arrested Monday afternoon in the senseless Cypress Hills double slaying of the “very nice” neighborhood fixtures, police and residents said.
A female relative stumbled on the scene inside the bloody Cypress Hills home on Sunday afternoon. KYLE MAZZA/ShutterstockA female relative of the victims came upon the grisly murder scene Sunday afternoon and found the bloodied bodies of elderly Roosevelt Simmons and his daughter, Jacqueline Delyons, 66, sources said.
Eric Brooks, who is Simmons’ grandson and Delyons’ nephew, told The Post that his stepmother was the woman who made the grim discovery, finding the dead pair laying on the Warwick Street home’s kitchen floor — and Delyons’ boyfriend Lewis at the home, too.
“She walked into them already deceased. Kerry was still home,” Brooks said.
NYPD cops and medics responded to the relative’s 911 call shortly after 3:45 p.m., sources said.
Kerry Lewis is walked by NYPD officers as they the 75th Precinct. Wayne Carrington
An elderly man and his daughter have been identified as the pair discovered dead with their throats slashed in the Brooklyn home. Wayne CarringtonMedics declared both Simmons and Deylons dead at the scene inside the first-floor apartment, while cops took the boyfriend into custody, according to sources.
He was later charged with two counts of first-degree murder and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
“He’s been with my aunt for over 20 years,” Brooks said of Lewis.
“I don’t know if he still lived here,” the man said. “Kerry was quiet, wasn’t aggressive, as far as I know. … We want answers, no one knows what happened.”
No weapon was recovered at the scene, sources said.
The gruesome slaying shocked neighbor Roma Ramnarase, 58, who lives a few houses over from the two-story abode along Warwick Street near Fulton Street.
Jackie DeLyons, 66, stands in front of the house in Brooklyn. Jackie DeLyons/Facebook
DeLyons nephew said Lewis “wasn’t aggressive.” Wayne CarringtonShe has lived in the neighborhood for 31 years and said Simmons and Deylons have been fixtures at least as long.
Simmons frequently sat outside his longtime home, while his daughter was a warm, “nice” presence along the block, Ramnarase said.
“We always saw them and said, ‘Hi,’” she said.
“They’re very nice people. I don’t know how this happened.”
