Andrew Reynoso had only been dating his new love interest for a couple months when he visited her family’s Bronx apartment and wound up paying with his life — the victim of a triple-murder-suicide carried out by the young woman’s father, Reynoso’s heartbroken family says.
Reynoso, 33, was shot to death along with the 26-year-old woman he was visiting, Kianna Stukes, by her father, Kaseem Stukes, who also killed his own mother before taking his own life Nov. 5, police said.
“He was literally just wrong place, wrong time,” the mother of Reynoso’s two young sons, told the Daily News in an exclusive interview Tuesday.
“I just wish he did not go over there … He was a good person. He didn’t deserve this … Our family is devastated.”
After the slayings but just before taking his own life, Kaseem, 44, knocked wandered through his building in NYCHA’s Castle Hill Houses with two guns tucked in his waistband, saying cryptic farewells to neighbors and leaving clues to a possible motive.
“My family is snitching on me,” he told a childhood friend who lives down the hall from his apartment. “They’re telling on me.”
Kaseem was due in Bronx Criminal Court the day of the slaying for an appearance where prosecutors planned to announce they were no longer pursuing a year-old case against him after a grand jury failed to indict him. He had been accused of slamming his vehicle into a row of parked cars and firing a gun at an angry mob that responded.
The mother of Reynoso’s kids, who asked not to be named, is glad Kaseem went back to his family’s apartment and shot himself to death after talking to neighbors in the building on Lacombe Ave. near Castle Hill Ave.
“I hope he’s rotting in hell. I need him to rot in hell. I hope everything bad that can happen to a person in hell is happening to him,” she said.
“That is such a selfish, cowardly f—ing action of any human being. If he wanted to take his own life then that’s what the f— he should have done — not everybody else around him.”
She remained close with Reynoso ever since they broke up years ago and now has to figure out how to break the news to their two sons, ages 4 and 6, that their dad is dead.
“They don’t even know. I have not told my kids. My kids are extremely attached to him. So to sit here and have to tell my babies that he’s not here…” she said, breaking down in tears as her voice trailed off. “They love their daddy. He loved them and we loved each other.”
Reynoso worked hard in a meat wholesale warehouse in Hunts Point to provide for their sons and was a constantly reassuring presence in their lives.
“Andrew wasn’t a man of many words. He was quiet. But he was funny, he was silly, he was caring,” his ex said.
“Any problem, anything like that, he was like ‘Oh things are gonna get better.’ He was very positive, no matter what it was. I could be freaking out, he was like, ‘It’s gonna be okay, don’t worry about it. Pray on it. God’s got us.’ He would always say that, no matter what the issue was. He was always very calm, laid back.”
His ex said Reynoso had only recently gotten involved with Kianna.
“He just started talking to her,” she said. “She wasn’t necessarily his girlfriend … They were dating.”
“He was just visiting her,” she said of the day he died.
Reynoso’s cousin also said the victim had only recently started dating Kianna but Reynosa had high hopes for the relationship.
“Yesterday we went to the funeral home, me and his mom,” said the cousin, Darling Burgos, 32, describing seeing Reynoso’s body for the first time. “She was crying, I was crying.”
Reynoso’s mother has barely eaten or slept since the slaying.
“She took care of him, she made sure he eat before he get to work, clean his clothes, everything,” the cousin said.
“The last words she told him, ‘Andrew, go to work.’ And he said, ‘Okay, Mommy.’ And he was walking away and she prayed to say ‘God always take care of my son, amen.’ Then he said, ‘Mommy I love you.’ She said ‘I love you too.’”
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Theresa Stukes. (Courtesy of Henry Tucker)
Reynoso’s ex last spoke to him just two days before he died. They discussed plans for him to take their sons out to the movies and bowling the following Saturday.
“I wasn’t really able to talk to him because I was busy cooking for the kids,” she said. “But he called to talk to the boys. He was like, ‘Hey, love, let me see them.’ He was on his way to work and that was Monday. I gave the kids the phone. FaceTime, they were talking to him. He was like ‘I’ll see you and the kids on Saturday.’”
“I didn’t get the chance to talk to him Tuesday,” she added. “He worked overnight so I tried my best not to bother him so he could sleep.”
She got a panicked call from one of Reynoso’s brothers the next morning that Reynoso was dead.
“I felt like I was going to faint,” she said. “At first I didn’t believe it, so I kept calling (Reynoso’s) phone.”
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Kaseem Stukes (inset) killed three people in a murder-suicide at the Castle Hill Houses in the Bronx on Nov. 6. (Barry Williams/ New York Daily News; Obtained by Daily News)
Cops found Kaseem dead on the couch with the murder weapon still in his hand, police sources said. Kianna, 26, was dead in the rear of the home along with her 75-year-old grandmother, Theresa Stukes, the sources said.
Reynoso was found dead near the apartment’s door, leading his family to speculate he was shot last and nearly escaped.
“You already did what you did to your mother and daughter,” Reynoso’s ex said. “You could have let (Reynoso) go. He was already at the door. You could’ve let him go.”
“And then you killed my person,” she added through tears. “That was my person. He had no right taking my person away.”
In a series of interviews with the Daily News, Kaseem’s surviving relatives said he was a good person before he snapped. They say he struggled with substance abuse and mental illness and they believe his stints in prison on drug and gun charges warped his mind.
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“I’m trying my best to not read the papers,” Reynoso’s ex said.
“It’s very upsetting. It’s even more upsetting to hear people want to talk good about this individual and say that he loved his mother. He killed his f—ing mother. He killed his 26-year-old daughter who didn’t even get a chance to really experience f—ing life, have her own kids, get married — no nothing. All because of your f— up, of your actions. And then you took someone that had nothing to do with anything, to come see your daughter. You took him away from my babies, you took him away from his mother, you took him away from his brothers. You took him away from everybody.”
“That had nothing to do with Andrew,” she added. “He went in to see your daughter and you took his life.”
She believed she and Reynoso might have gotten back together eventually. But in the meantime, he had told her about the new woman in his life.
“When he did talk to me about Kianna, he was like, ‘Yeah she’s cool.’ I’m like ‘Alright that’s what’s up.’ And like I tell him all the time with everything, ‘Be careful.’ That’s just my thing — that’s what I tell everybody I care about, everyone I love. I be like, ‘Make sure you be safe out there. There’s crazy motherf—ers out there, anything can happen.’ That’s just what I say. And he was just like, ‘Alright, I got you mamas.’”
“My kids now have to grow up without their dad being there, reading to them and playing video games with them and giving them hugs and kisses and going to the graduations and being there for their birthday,” she added. “He was at every birthday party. He was at all their graduations. You stole that. You stole it. Now my babies just have memories and photos and videos.”
