A 91-year-old man and his daughter have been identified as the couple whose throats were slit in a Brooklyn home on Sunday — and the woman’s boyfriend later eerily told relatives, “You know what happened,” police sources say.
The 46-year-old friend has been taken into custody as a person of interest in the Cypress Hills double homicide, but has not been charged in the senseless killing of the “very nice” neighbors, sources and residents said.
A female relative arrived at the grisly scene Sunday afternoon and found the elder Roosevelt Simmons and his daughter, Jacqueline Delyons, 66, dead, sources said.
Eric Brooks, Simmons’ grandson and Delyons’ cousin, told The Post that his stepmother was the woman who made the grim discovery and found the couple’s bodies on the kitchen floor of the Warwick Street home — as well as Delyons’ boyfriend at home . , sources said.
NYPD officers and medics responded to the family member’s 911 call shortly after 3:45 p.m., sources said.
Medics pronounced both Simmons and Deylons dead at the scene in the first-floor apartment, while police took the boyfriend into custody, according to sources.
“He has been with my aunt for over 20 years,” Brooks said of the beauty.
“I don’t know if he still lived here,” the man said. “[He] was quiet and not aggressive, as far as I know. … We want answers, no one knows what happened.”
No weapon was found at the scene, sources said.
The gruesome murder shocked neighbor Roma Ramnarase, 58, who lives a few houses down from the two-storey house on Warwick Street, near Fulton Street.
She’s lived in the neighborhood for 31 years and says Simmons and Deylons have been a fixture for at least that long.
Simmons often sat outside his old home, while his daughter was a warm, “kind” presence nearby, Ramnarase said.
“We always saw them and said, ‘Hi,’” she said.
“They are very nice people. I don’t know how this happened.”
