Fatal NYC stabbing suspect lived with victim’s family, dated his sister

A suspected killer accused of stabbing a person to dying exterior a Brooklyn deli shared a roof along with his sufferer, cops say — residing in the identical cozy, two-story home with three generations of the slain man’s household.

Homicide suspect Erickson Jean-Gilles, 32, had been relationship his alleged sufferer’s sister when a battle between the 2 males turned deadly on Sept. 27.

The killing has left sufferer Frederick Bolden Jr.’s household looking for solutions — whereas his sister confronts an unfathomable alternative about whether or not to assist her boyfriend, who’s behind bars awaiting trial for homicide.

“She’s in all probability confused. She’s within the center. She’s in a really laborious place. You’re in the course of your boyfriend and your loved ones,” stated Ratasha Irvin, mom to Bolden and his sister, Sakida Irvin. “If you happen to assist your loved ones, you’re letting down your boyfriend, somebody who you been with for some time and love. If you happen to assist your boyfriend, you’re letting down your loved ones.”

She stated she was specializing in Sakida’s psychological well-being.

“I don’t care who she helps. I can’t make selections for different folks. I simply know that my child is gone and I’ve a toddler who’s caught within the center,” Ratasha Irvin stated.

Jean-Gilles, 32, and Bolden, 22, clashed inside Canarsie One Cease Market on the nook on E. 87th St. and Avenue L, just some blocks away from their Canarsie dwelling. The quarrel spilled onto the road.

There, Jean-Gilles was caught on video repeatedly stabbing Bolden within the torso, in keeping with a felony criticism. He was arrested that day and stays held with out bail on homicide and weapon-possession costs.

Buddies of each males informed the information that the battle seemingly got here out of nowhere, although one buddy informed the Each day Information that Jean-Gilles had began carrying a knife as a result of he’d come to really feel bullied and threatened.

“Folks round tried to cease it,” stated the buddy, who recognized himself as “Eboi.” “(Jean-Gilles) felt like he was being bullied. It was a identified factor.”

One other buddy of each males famous that Jean-Gilles by no means acquired indignant prior to now.

“They by no means acted like that with one another, and at some point every thing went left,” the pal stated.

The boys lived in a home owned by Bolden’s grandmother, Linda Phillips, a retired pastor who adorned the partitions with art work depicting Jesus and his disciples, together with pictures of her eight grandkids.

Phillips stated she was stern along with her grandchildren after they had been rising up, ensuring they accompanied her to church on Sundays.

Bolden, who wasn’t working on the time of the killing, used to ship meals for Uber Eats. His grandmother described him as decided and protecting, a music lover and the daddy of a younger lady who lived along with her mother in Georgia.

“He had a bent to be protecting,” Phillips stated. “Anyone he cherished, he was protecting of. He was an individual if he put his thoughts to one thing, he acquired it accomplished.”

The sufferer and his brothers performed youth soccer and shared a basketball hoop with their next-door neighbors, in keeping with the grieving grandmother.

She quoted the Bible when speaking about Bolden’s dying, repeating the road, “Love each other as I like you.”

“A few of us don’t know the best way to establish love. A few of us don’t know the best way to establish peace. They go hand in hand,” Phillips stated, including that if she may speak to Jean-Gilles, she’d inform him, “God loves you. And I like you, too. That is me as an individual. I’m not an individual of bitterness or anger. I’m not tit-for-tat. I like pleasure, I like laughter. I might say Frederick had these issues, too.”

Jean-Gilles’ mother and father, who beforehand lived close to Bolden’s home, declined to remark Sunday.

“I didn’t have an issue with (Jean-Gilles). No person ever goes to be adequate for my child. She’s my solely lady,” Ratasha Irvin stated. “I don’t know if it had one thing to do with exterior. We get bits and items of ‘He stated, she stated.’ I need to know why, however we in all probability won’t ever know the reality,”

She added, “I simply need peace. I actually don’t care what anyone thinks so long as it doesn’t trigger any hurt to my youngsters.”

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She stated she’d by no means seen Jean-Gilles lose his mood prior to now, and assumed he and his sufferer had been consuming on the time of the quarrel.

“I don’t know what was occurring in Erick’s head at the moment. In my coronary heart of hearts, I need to consider that this isn’t what he’s attempting to do,” she stated. “I’ve by no means seen him get indignant. I’ve by no means seen him get violent. For all I do know, he was scared.”

The sister, Sakida Irvin, was too emotional to talk Sunday.

She had been relationship Jean-Gilles, who used to work as a line prepare dinner, for a number of years earlier than transferring into the home in January, Ratasha Irvin stated.

“Nothing I do or say will deliver Frederick (again). I carried him for 9 months and I nurtured him. I did the identical for her. And he or she’s nonetheless right here. I like them the identical,” she stated. “Identical to I’d battle to the final breath for Fredrick, I’d do the identical for her. The very last thing she wants is for somebody to be in opposition to her.

She’s grateful Bolden’s younger daughter is in her life, she stated.

“He left us slightly mini model.”