A Brooklyn mother and her 2- and 5-year-old daughters were found stabbed to death in their apartment yesterday — and the man who answered the door when cops arrived was taken into custody for questioning, police said.
The victims, who were not immediately identified, were found dead in their East Flatbush apartment on Rogers Avenue at 1:15 p.m. following a tip from a man in The Bronx.
A police source said he walked into the 45th Precinct station house in The Bronx and told cops there his son had just confessed to stabbing a girlfriend and her kids amid a heated argument.
Cops raced to the Brooklyn address and a man identified as Jermaine Ruiz, 24, answered the door.
In the second-floor apartment they found a 22-year-old woman dead on the kitchen floor, in a pool of blood with multiple stab wounds.
The body was partially in a plastic bag, police said.
Cops said the bodies of the kids were found stabbed nearby, wrapped in carpet.
“He was preparing to dispose of them,” a police official told The Post.
Ruiz, who is not the kids’ father, was being questioned last night. Police said he confessed to the crime.
Cops said neighbors told them the couple fought Wednesday night.
“I saw them fighting outside of the store on the corner,” witness Akia Robinson, 22, said of the couple.
“He was just screaming at her. He looked crazy.”
Another witness said she saw Ruiz, who has an arrest for marijuana on his record, sitting on the stoop of the house Wednesday morning looking distraught.
“He was sitting on the steps smoking a cigarette and crying,” said Roxanne Peart, 20. “He looked distressed.”
Neighbor Fiona Alexander said: “They argued all the time. She didn’t like the company he kept.”
Alexander added that Ruiz looked “nervous, troubled and jittery” after the fight.
“I never thought he would do something like that to her. He’s big and she’s small.”
Additional reporting by Jennifer Bain