Police are looking to question the son of an elderly woman who was found murdered inside her Brooklyn home, cops and a law enforcement source said Tuesday.
Officers conducting a wellness check shortly before 12:30 p.m. Monday discovered Hyacinth Khaleel’s bloodied body inside her Kings Highway apartment in Flatlands.
Authorities said Khaleel, 75, had been dead for multiple days before she was found lying face up on the floor of her kitchen with several stab wounds to her arms and legs, cops said.
She was pronounced dead at the scene. There were no signs of forced entry and no weapon was recovered at the scene.
“She was a kind, lovely woman. We used to help each other,” said neighbor and longtime friend Robert Calamia, 85. “I saw her last Monday, picked up her medicine for her.”
Calamia said he began suspecting something was wrong when Khaleel, a recently retired hairdresser, stopped picking up her food deliveries, he recalled.
“She gets Meals on Wheels and they stayed at the doorstep for a couple days and I wondered why,” he said. “Then I came out and it was gone. So I figured everything was okay and she just hadn’t been feeling well to pick it up.”
“Then I found it in the dumpster,” he said.
Khaleel lived with her son, identified by Calamia as Michael, who has a history of mental illness, a law enforcement source told The Post.
“Their relationship was not good,” he added. “Sometimes she was afraid of him. I was, myself, sometimes.”
Investigators are looking to question the victim’s son, but have to find him first, the source told The Post.
“The police used to come a lot. I called them a few times myself, because she’d call me for help,” he said. “She’d say, ‘It’s Michael, call the police.'”
Additional reporting by Ben Feuerherd