Brooklyn woman, 23, stabs mom dead, kills self in Park Slope murder-suicide: NYPD source

A mother and daughter were stabbed dead in an apparent murder-suicide in a Brooklyn apartment building, police sources said Sunday — the same building that saw another headline-grabbing murder-suicide just two years ago.

Cops believe Kayla Wilson, 23, stabbed her 59-year-old mother to death before taking her own life inside their Park Slope apartment building.

“Kayla was always fighting demons,” said neighbor and longtime family friend Deshawn Jackson. “She had called me and tell me that she has spirits talking to her in the head, telling her to hurt herself.”

On Saturday, cops responding to a 7:56 p.m. 911 call for an assault in the building on 2nd St. near Fifth Ave. first found Olga Elena Bracero dead inside the building from stab wounds all over her body.

As they searched the premises, police then found her daughter dead, also from multiple stab wounds, NYPD officials said.

Bracero ran a business cooking and delivering vegan foods and wrote a children’s book, “Maia’s Apologetic Leap: A Jamaican Frog Tale of Forgiveness.” Earlier this month she started a GoFundMe to open a storefront after the ghost kitchen she used for her Gon’ Vegan business closed down.

“Serving you morning, noon, and night was truly an honor, and many of you became like family,” she wrote on Facebook Wednesday.

Bracero often traveled to Jamaica and bought a home there a few years ago, Jackson said. Her daughter started showing signs of mental illness after experimenting with drugs there, he said.

“She just said, ‘I think my daughter smoked something bad in Jamaica and ever since that she’s been acting differently,’” Jackson recounted. “So we been helping her. We put her into the hospital to get help. She’s staying there for like a week or two weeks. They give her medicine, she’ll come home and be good. But then you can still see that she’s not right in the head.”

Wilson wasn’t working but had ambitions, Jackson said. She got a commercial driver’s license and was hoping to write books like her mother or sing.

“But she’d tell you that the demons is always telling her not to do certain things,” Jackson said.

Over the past couple of years, Bracero would call Jackson for help because Wilson thought of him as an uncle.

“(Bracero) told me that (Wilson’s) walking around in the house with a knife,” he said. “Or (Kayla) will come to me and say, ‘Please help me, they’re telling me to do something bad.’”

But the mom never told him she feared for her life.

“Just knowing them, they’re like family to me, always in my house. And to see the coroner’s van here … It just hurts, because I was just speaking to them the other day,” he said.

Blood was pooled under a bed in a room past the living room of the apartment and more blood was smeared on the wall near a stairwell leading to their door.

The women died in the same building where Jason Jackson and his girlfriend, Olga Kirshenbaum, both 34, were found shot in the head in their Park Slope apartment in a murder-suicide on Jan 24, 2024. Cops found a handgun next to Jackson’s body, leading investigators to believe he shot Kirshenbaum, then himself.

The women in Saturday’s stabbing lived on the same floor as Kirshenbaum and Jackson but in a different apartment.

Saturday’s stabbings happened the same day a 71-year-old man and a 65-year-old woman were stabbed in an apartment building in Fresh Meadows, Queens. They were rushed by medics from the building on 64th  Ave. near Peck Ave. about 7:55 a.m. to North Shore University Hospital, where both died.