Additionally, neighbors reported hearing “screaming” from the unit for days.
Police told Hubert that they think Lisa, who had asthma, may have died of cardiac arrest, leaving Nazir to tragically starve to death, and that neither body showed any evidence of trauma.
Promise was taken to a nearby hospital in a stable condition after it is thought that she survived by eating chocolate that she discovered inside the house.
Hubert lamented Nazir, who was “so small,” and is currently caring for Promise in his Bronx home. I grasped him in my hand. similar to a bird, especially a juvenile one.
He explained that although Promise “hasn’t said anything,” she frequently looks at him “like she knows something,” which leads him to suspect that she may be traumatized from spending days with her mother’s and brother’s bodies.
Hubert, a native of St. Kitts, went on to say that his daughter had experienced mental health issues and that he thought she might have bipolar disorder.
In addition, he sobbed at the thought of burying his daughter and grandson, saying, “I’m sorry…. Two of them. How will I obtain the funds? To bury them both?”
“The landlord hadn’t done wellness checks, people had called, neighbors called,” Eric Perez, who lived above Lisa, added.
“It just smells like rat infested . . . the exterminator said the same thing — the smell is similar to rats and even death.”
The mother was arrested in June 2021 on allegations of child abandonment, and according to police sources, she also had an Administration for Children’s Services case outstanding against her.
She had been acting strangely, according to sources, swinging her little daughter about in a pram and setting a wig on fire in front of a White Plains Road shopping center.
According to authorities, the case was eventually sealed when she was purportedly seen leaving the child when the police arrived.
The incident is currently being investigated, an ACS spokeswoman informed the newspaper.
