Brave neighbors tell News how they tried to save Brooklyn woman from son accused in knife attack

Shortly earlier midnight connected Jan. 24, a 45-year-old mother’s hopeless screams pierced the calm of her Brooklyn gathering — causing neighbors to outpouring into enactment to assistance the pistillate arsenic she was being attacked by a younger antheral equipped with a ample knife.

To their horror, the unfortunate was being repeatedly stabbed by her ain son, constabulary and prosecutors said.

“That shriek gave you goosebumps,” a neighbour who did not supply her sanction told the Daily News. “It was similar their psyche was being snatched from their body.”

Roselene Oliveira, dressed successful pinkish pajamas and Crocs, was locked successful a life-or-death conflict with 29-year-old Weverton Lino successful a long, constrictive hallway connected the sixth level of the East Flatbush gathering connected E. 92nd St. and Lenox Road erstwhile neighbors near the information of their apartments to assistance subdue the suspect.

Lino would stab his parent 13 times successful all, prosecutors said. Oliveira, known by neighbors arsenic a quiescent tenant who often could beryllium seen sitting and penning intently successful her tidy flat with the doorway ajar, did not survive.

It was not known what caused Lino, who lives successful the Bronx, to alert into a murderous rage, but constabulary had doubly filed home incidental reports aft responding to arguments betwixt the fishy and his mother, prosecutors said astatine his arraignment.

As the screaming continued, the terrified neighbor, 44, shooed her young sons distant from the doorway and looked done the peephole into the hallway, watching arsenic the assailant stabbed the helpless pistillate successful the backmost of her cervix with a weapon astatine slightest 8 inches long.

“I saw the feline with a weapon … And done the peephole, I saw 2 stabs,” she said.

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Another neighbor, a 33-year-old man, had besides been alarmed by the cries for help. After rushing into the hallway, the bully Samaritan instantly tried to overpower the suspect.

“I had to bash something,” said the neighbor, who did not privation to beryllium named. “Basically, I tackled him to the ground.”

But the suspect, who some neighbors said smelled powerfully of alcohol, continued to struggle.

Meanwhile, the 44-year-old woman, seeing her neighbour onshore connected apical of Lino and the fishy inactive holding the knife, was connected the telephone frantically trying to get constabulary to come.

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An NYPD serviceman extracurricular the Brooklyn flat wherever a 45-year-old pistillate was fatally stabbed. (Theodore Parisienne/New York Daily News)

“I’m connected the telephone with 911 and I explicate to them what’s going connected … I said ‘He’s stabbing her, she’s gonna die!’”

While speaking to a dispatcher, the 44-year-old woman, who works successful a hospital, saw signs that Oliveira was dying.

“She arched back, and she was leaning against the wall,” said the neighbor. Oliveira past gasped, “and her eyes rolled over.”

The pistillate heard a groan and realized Oliveira was gone. So did the antheral holding the attacker down.

“[My neighbor] kept saying ‘Why did you bash this? Why did you bash this? You killed her, you killed her.’ And past [the suspect] started getting upset, similar trying to deed him oregon something. Then helium was trying to get up,” she said.

“That’s erstwhile [my neighbor] starts screaming for help. And we commencement screaming for assistance together. Nobody would look retired successful the hallway. I kept screaming and screaming, and cipher came. It felt similar we was successful [an] alley by ourselves.”

A 45-year-old pistillate was pronounced dormant astatine Brookdale Hospital aft she was stabbed aggregate times wrong her flat successful Brooklyn connected Jan. 24, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)

Around this clip a 3rd neighbour joined successful to assistance clasp down the stabber, who was inactive struggling connected the level with the different neighbor.

“They were warring implicit the knife,” the antheral said. “I gotta springiness recognition to the [neighbor]. He fought the guy, helium held the feline down. [The stabber] had his limb stretched retired with the room knife.”

The antheral jumped successful and tried to drawback the knife, cutting himself successful the process. But the stabber held connected to the weapon.

That’s erstwhile the 44-year-old neighbour realized she had to bash thing earlier helium broke escaped — truthful she grabbed a broom from her apartment.

“I took the broomstick, and I wanted him to deliberation it was a gun,” she said. “I enactment it to his head, and I conscionable had to enactment similar I was gangster. I was like, ‘Don’t f—–g move, oregon we’re gonna stroke your brains out.’ That’s erstwhile helium relaxed some. Same time, I look up … the cops is coming.”

When constabulary arrived astatine 11:40 p.m. they recovered the unfortunate successful the hallway with aggregate stab wounds to her body.

A 45-year-old pistillate was pronounced dormant astatine Brookdale Hospital aft she was stabbed aggregate times wrong her flat successful Brooklyn connected Jan. 24, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)

Prosecutors said NYPD body-worn camera footage shows the neighbors pointing to Lino, who was “still gripping a knife.” Cops yet tased him to get him nether control.

“When [the police] tased him, helium dropped the knife, and I passed them the weapon and they pulled maine to get distant from him,” said the archetypal antheral neighbor.

Asked what was going done his caput erstwhile helium stepped successful to help, helium said helium didn’t know.

“I’m asking myself that question too.”

The 44-year-old pistillate said she had a brushed spot for Oliveira implicit the 2 years the unfortunate lived successful the building, sensing Oliveira was timid and fragile.

“I said to her, ‘If you ever request help, travel and sound connected my doorway … This was similar 7 months ago,” said the pistillate neighbor. “She conscionable smiled and said, ‘OK.’”

The neighbour felt Oliveira was trying to heed her proposal and marque it to her doorway erstwhile she was attacked.

Lino was ordered held without bail astatine Rikers Isand aft helium was arraigned connected execution and weapons charges successful Brooklyn Criminal Court Jan. 26. His lawyer, Wayne Bodden, said helium plans to petition his lawsuit acquisition a psychiatric evaluation. When contacted by The News, Bodden said it was excessively aboriginal to remark connected the case.

A week has passed since Oliveira was murdered, a agleam greenish constabulary announcement sealing her flat doorway unopen a changeless reminder of the horrifying incident, the screams and panic of that nighttime inactive caller successful the minds of neighbors.

The 44-year-old pistillate said she couldn’t slumber for the 2 nights pursuing the execution and gets anxious immoderate clip she sees anyone who looks remotely similar the suspect.

“I request therapy,” she said.