A 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 close neighbor said Sunday.
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.
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.
“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 added that Wilson “would tell me that the voices in her head are telling her to do it.”
Jackson said the younger woman also routinely walked around with a knife.
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.
“You never thought this would happen. I broke down. I cried,” Jackson said. “It hit hard. It hit really hard.”
The grisly stabbings came two years after another murder-suicide in the building at 386 Second St.
In January 2024, cook Jason Jackson fatally shot his partner, financial planner Olga Kirshenbaum, then shot himself dead.
