The sister of the gunman who carried out a horrific triple-murder-suicide in his family’s Bronx NYCHA apartment wishes she could raise him from the dead — so she could be the one to kill him.
Kaseem Stukes fatally shot his 75-year-old mother, his 26-year-old daughter and his daughter’s boyfriend before turning the gun on himself inside the family’s home in the Castle Hill Houses Wednesday morning.
“If it was up to me, I would kill my brother myself,” Stukes’ devastated sister Tangier Stukes told the Daily News Thursday in an exclusive interview.
“I would wake his a– up, shoot him in the head! Wake him up, shoot him again!”
She has only one explanation for her brother’s rampage inside the apartment on Lacombe Ave. near Castle Hill Ave.
“That devil was on his f—ing shoulder,” she said. “The devil had to be on his f—ing shoulder, talking to him, whispering in his ear.”
But Tangier remembered the shooter as a “good father, a good son and a good brother,” adding that he worked driving ambulances for Senior Care EMS.
“My brother was not a troublesome person,” she said. “He didn’t talk about his feelings.”
Tangier last spoke to her mother, Theresa Stukes, the day before the massacre and had plans to visit her the day of the shooting.
“My mom was always happy,” she said. “[My mother’s] leaving nobody behind. Just me! I’m the only one left!”
Kaseem had been in and out of prison on gun and drug charges much of his adult life, including for selling cocaine and crack outside a Bronx NYCHA complex in 2003.
His sister said he suffered abuse from correction officers and believes prison warped his mind.
“Jail have you f—ing bugging out,” Tangier said. “When they’re locked up, their minds slowly switch. You’re always going to be paranoid.”
Theresa’s many adoring neighbors called Tangier with news of the bloodshed on Wednesday morning.
“My phone started blowing up,” she said. “My mother was loved. Everybody speaks to my mother, every single day. Everybody called my mother every single day. (If) she don’t answer, something’s wrong. Everybody checked on her.”
“My mother was a good person, my niece was a good person and so was my brother. They were good people,” she continued. “[My mother] did what she had to do and she took care of us. She was a good mother. She treated her kids good.”
Her murdered niece, Kianna Stukes, who worked as a dental assistant, hadn’t even been dating her slain boyfriend, Andrew Reynoso, for very long, Tangier said.
“(Kianna) was sweet. That was my baby. She wasn’t my daughter, but she was my niece,” she said, adding that Kianna’s boyfriend was also a “good person.”
“I haven’t gone to sleep yet,” she added, breaking down in tears.
