A Queens mother found stabbed to death along with her two babies had pleaded with her pastor in recent weeks for help managing her abusive husband— a man with a “bad attitude,” said a friend of the slain woman.
Things got so difficult at home for slay victim Deisy Garcia, “She asked the pastor for help. She wanted help with her husband. He had a bad attitude,” said Diana Villa, 44, a fellow parishioner at Iglesia Naciones Unidas en Cristo, the Queens church attended by the deeply religious Garcia, an immigrant from Guatemala.
Police have not named a suspect but said they are looking for the husband— identified by a grieving uncle of the slain woman as Miguel Ramos, 22, of Mexico. Police hope to interview Ramos for any leads he can provide in the brutal family massacre.
The bodies of Garcia and her adorable little girls, Danielle, 3, and Yoselyn, who turned 1 last week, were discovered on Sunday night by a housemate — the dead mother’s uncle — in their gore-spattered apartment at 90-20 Sutphin Blvd. in South Jamaica.
The young mom was found on the floor of one bedroom, while the girls’ bodies were on a bed in another room. All three victims had been stabbed multiple times, and two bloody knives were left in each of the rooms, sitting by the victims’ sides, law enforcement sources said.
The uncle, Ramon Chuc, wept on Monday as he relived the horror of finding his niece and her children butchered. After playing soccer outside that day, Chuc, 37, said he was sitting in the family living room with his two sons, aged 12 and 10, “and they ask me why the baby is no come to play.”
“Then my 12-year-old son, Renee, go inside the room and sees my niece on the floor,” said a sobbing Chuc. “After that I not understand what happened. I saw the two babies are covered with a blanket.”
“I take it off and see them,” Chuc said, again breaking into sobs. “I don’t know if the husband do this.”
Villa, the slain mother’s friend from church, said Garcia and Ramos feuded violently at a recent baby shower which Garcia had helped organize and cook for. It was held at the church.
“He was arguing with her at the baby shower, saying, ‘Why we have no beer? Why only coffee and tea?’ ” said Diana Villa, 44, a fellow parishioner at Naciones Unidas. “You’re not supposed to drink beer at church. Then he yell, ‘Why do you go cook over here [for the church group]?’ saying, ‘You should be home!’ ”
“At the shower, he hit her in the bathroom and she curse him out,” said Villa. “I tell her call the police — police help. But she didn’t. She was illegal.”
“Last time I saw her,” said Villa, “she was at church sitting in back bench crying. She said her husband was accusing her of something bad.”
Stunned members of Garcia’s church described her as devoted to her daughters and to her parish.
“She was a dancer for the church,’’ said Mario Sanchez, 16. “She was always very quiet — but she seemed happy. She’d always come with her little girls.”
Garcia was a also student at York College. One relative who asked not to be named said husband Ramos “works every day” and spends a lot of time away from wife and children. “He doesn’t see them a lot,” the relative said.
“The little girl’s birthday was last week,’’ the relative recalled. “She just turned 1. There was a surprise party. Everybody was there. Her whole family, her mom, people from the church, her uncles, her aunts, they were all there.
“She seemed very happy. Everybody was happy,” the relative said.
Mabila Albiarado, a cousin of Garcia’s, expressed shock.
“I saw her 20 days ago at a baby shower,” she said. “She seemed normal, just like herself.’’
The family had been sharing the apartment over a pharmacy for the past six months with Chuc, his sons, and Chuc’s wife, Sara Alvarado.
Garcia’s Facebook page says she likes the Bible and the film “The Passion of the Christ.’’
Additional reporting by Antonio Antenucci