A Queens man came from home work to discover an unimaginable horror — his wife stabbed dead by their mentally ill daughter just two days after the daughter’s latest release from a hospital psychiatric ward.
Wazir Osman says as he was arriving home he passed his his 30-year-old daughter on the street just down the block from their South Ozone Park home about 3:25 p.m. Saturday.
“She looked at me and she never smiled. She never spoke to me,” Osman, 67, told the Daily News in an exclusive interview. “That’s not normal. I thought something was wrong … She glared at me and she kept walking.”
He then found blood on the doorsteps of his family’s two-story brick rowhouse on 128th St. near Liberty Ave. Next he encountered his beloved 60-year-old wife Ausha Ramlakhan in the living room stabbed in the neck and shoulders.
“I saw my wife dead. Lying on the floor, stab wounds in the neck, a lot of places,” he said. “My first reaction was to see if she was still alive. Nope. She was starting to feel cold already.”
Medics declared Ramlakhan dead at the scene.
On Sunday, cops arrested Osman and Ramlakhan’s daughter, Bridgett Ramlakhan, and charged her with murder and weapon possession.
Osman was married to Ausha 42 years and Bridgett is their only child.
Bridgett’s three children, ages 10, 6 and 4, are being raised in foster care after having been taken away from her by the city’s Administration for Children’s Services, according to Osman.
“I’m not sure I can survive this,” Osman said. “But I need to for the grandkids.”
“My wife don’t work. My wife is a stay-at-home mom. I mean, she literally took care of me,” he added. “She was passionate about her grandkids. And her daughter. Me, she put up with.”
Osman, a construction maintainer for NYC Transit, said his daughter has been in and out of psychiatric wards in recent years.
Bridgett, who is unemployed, lived with her parents. She often suffered seizures and would occasionally have outbursts, her dad says.
“She had split personalities,” Osman said. “She never really got violent before. She used to scream a lot.”
Most recently, Bridgett checked herself into Jamaica Hospital, where she stayed for 13 days before doctors released her, he says.
“(Bridgett) just came out of the hospital a couple of days ago and the doctor said she was fine. When she came home, I saw she wasn’t fine,” Osman said.
“She needs to be treated like a mental patient. I love my daughter. I love my wife. I lost my wife but I don’t want to lose my daughter too. So, I would hope that they treat her as the sick person that she is.”
“Understand that my daughter is not to be blamed 100% for what happened to my wife. My daughter suffers from bipolar paranoid schizophrenia,” he added. “My wife love her daughter. But the daughter, because of her mental state, she didn’t reciprocate. Never thought it would end up like this. But here it is.”
“I’m gonna miss my wife terribly,” he added. “I’m gonna miss my daughter terribly — because I know this doesn’t have a happy ending.”