The Bronx mother charged with fatally stabbing her two younger sons felt “smothered” by the boys’ father and believed he was “the satan” due to his tattoos, her dad advised The Submit on Monday.
Dwane Fleming mentioned his daughter, accused killer Dimone Fleming, 22, known as him simply hours earlier than the grisly slayings Saturday and complained about her allegedly stifling relationship along with her boyfriend, Columbus Canada.
“Two hours earlier than it occurred, at 5, she known as me and mentioned she was feeling smothered,” Dwane Fleming mentioned. “She couldn’t breathe. She mentioned it was the connection with Columbus.
“She mentioned she felt he was the satan, that he had tattoos on his physique that pertain to satanic stuff,” the grandpa mentioned. “She thought he was the satan due to the marks he had on his physique.”
Canada scoffed on the declare to The Submit on Monday, saying, “None of that s–t is true.
“I've star tattoos,” he mentioned, including that Fleming was doubtless hallucinating about different symbols as a result of “she was already in her place, in her temper.
“I’m removed from the satan,” he mentioned. “I’m nowhere close to — at all times God, man.”
Dimone Fleming, who stays beneath psychiatric analysis at St. Barnabas Hospital, was charged Sunday within the deaths of sons Daishawn Fleming, 3, and 11-month-old Octavius Canada, whose our bodies had been present in a tub at a Bronx homeless shelter.
Legislation-enforcement sources mentioned Sunday that Fleming was obsessive about demonic possession and should have killed her younger kids as a result of she consider they had been possessed by the satan.
Police mentioned she was arrested shortly after 7:20 p.m. Saturday over a disturbance within the household’s third-floor condominium on the shelter. She was discovered bare making an attempt to mild a fireplace within the kitchen, cops mentioned.
Officers responding to the incident didn't understand that the 2 boys had been brutally stabbed and had been buried beneath a pile of garments within the bathtub.
The unsuspecting cops left with Fleming, after having been advised by a household pal that the boys had been with their dad.
Canada went to the condominium after the cops left and made the tragic discovery.
Dwane Fleming, 52, mentioned Canada known as him after the slain siblings had been discovered and advised him the boys had been lifeless and his daughter had been arrested.
“That didn’t make no sense,” the grandpa mentioned. “I talked to her on a regular basis. I spoke to her no less than as soon as per week on the cellphone. She by no means mentioned something concerning the boys overwhelming her.
“She mentioned it was him, that it was Columbus [who] was overwhelming her,” he added. “That he was smothering her. She was sad with the connection.”
In the meantime, a household consultant on Monday learn an announcement exterior the shelter.
“We're the Canada and Fleming household,” the assertion mentioned. “The tragedy that has unfolded to our household has us heartbroken. We're puzzled, however we want to thank everybody for his or her ideas and prayers as we proceed to seek for solutions on why the kids had been taken from us.
“All household shelters have to be extra skilled and extra palms[-on] with the household’s security and conscious of the residents of the shelter across the metropolis,” it mentioned.
“Please give us house. We have to recuperate from the lack of Octavius Cyrus Canada and Daishawn Skakur Fleming. We're calling on [NYPD Commissioner} Keechant Sewell, [Mayor] Eric Adams and [city Social Services Commissioner] Gary Jenkins to come back ahead and discover peace for our household.”
Canada has been so distraught by the slayings that he can barely converse, a household pal mentioned exterior the Mount Hope shelter earlier Monday.
He was noticed a number of occasions exterior the shelter, the place a memorial for the 2 tiny victims has sprouted up, with mates and relations sharing their condolences.
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