A deranged man, enraged at not seeing enough of his kids, shot his baby daughter to death in her high chair and killed his autistic son yesterday after storming into his ex-girlfriend’s Harlem home, law-enforcement sources said.
Everett George, 34, furious that Taisha Middleton had spurned his pleas to get back together and would not give him custody of their children, also tried to put a bullet in her – but the 9 mm handgun jammed, the sources said.
The rampage began at 7:15 a.m. when George, a former correction officer, went to the apartment, at East 129th Street.
Middleton opened the door to take their son Dominic, 13, to school, the sources said.
Without uttering a word, George sprayed Mace at his former lover. As she staggered, dazed, into the kitchen, he went into the living room and fired a shot at her mother, Martha Middleton, sources said.
She dropped to the floor and was not harmed.
George allegedly turned and put a bullet in 1-year-old Christina Middleton’s neck. He then shot Dominic in the chest, sources said. The autistic boy had been standing by the door, his books in his school bag.
After his weapon jammed, George fled the apartment, sources said.
Middleton, covered in blood, ran from the building.
“She was screaming ‘help me,’ ” said neighbor Teisha William.
Later, outside her Bronx home, a distraught Martha Middleton – whose own mother was also in the apartment – was unable to talk about the nightmare she witnessed.
“My grandkids are dead, please go away,” she said.
George drove to his current girlfriend’s house in The Bronx and overdosed on Zoloft, sources said. The girlfriend called 911, and told cops who responded along with the ambulance that “he’s all f- – -ed up,” the sources said. He was taken into custody at Bronx Lebanon Hospital. George was later transferred to Bellevue, which has a prison ward.
Word of the unthinkable Thanksgiving eve slayings sickened the city and stunned George’s father, a retired correction officer.
“It’s shocking to me he would do something like this,” said Everett George Sr.
“How do you think a father could feel, this happening the day before Thanksgiving?”
His son was a correction officer at Rikers Island for a year and resigned in 1998. A source said he was forced to retire because he had “gambling issues.”
He applied for reinstatement in 2000 and was fired five days later while in training, the department said.
George has three other children with two other women, sources said.
Last July, Middleton obtained an order of protection against him. After the order expired, she obtained a new one Saturday – after he tore apart the baby’s stroller in a hallway, neighbors said.
Acquaintances said Middleton was fed up that George was living with another woman and staying out late carousing – and he was upset that they had split up.
On Aug. 6, George was seen in an episode of ABC’s documentary series “NYPD 24/7” standing in the hallway outside a Bronx apartment talking to cops as they prepared to break down the door in a custody dispute. A child is heard screaming inside.
Police sources said the woman in the apartment was George’s sister.