A Brooklyn man was hit with three counts of murder Saturday for stabbing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in a grisly bloodbath.
Cops charged Jermaine Ruiz, 24, in the deaths of Jessica Ybe, 22, and her 2- and 5-year-old girls a day after finding the bodies in their East Flatbush apartment.
Ybe was partially wrapped in plastic bags and the children were rolled in a carpet, cops said. Ruiz, 24, was preparing to hide the bodies in a Dumpster.
He confessed to killing all three, cops said.
A neighbor told the Daily News that Ruiz had asked the super Thursday where to find a Dumpster that would hold a large amount of trash.
"It's heavy and it will smell," Ruiz said, according to the neighbor. Police, who are still searching for the murder weapon, said the crime scene was grisly.
"There was a lot of blood in the apartment," NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said. "It was in complete disarray."
The crime was uncovered after Ruiz called his father in the Bronx and told him what he had done, cops said.
The father alerted police, and two detectives went to the Rogers Ave. apartment building.
When the suspect opened the door, cops saw the body of his girlfriend, Jessica Ybe, partially covered with plastic bags.
Inside, cops spotted the rolled-up carpet with plastic bags covering both ends. When they opened it up, the two little girls were inside.
Ybe and Ruiz had 7-month-old twins together who were with Ruiz's mom in the Bronx during the killings, cops and family said.
The twins were safe with Ruiz's mom last night.
So much blood was spilled in the stabbings that the woman living directly below Ruiz reported some blood dripped into her kitchen through the ceiling. "She was completely hysterical," a neighbor said of the downstairs tenant.
Cops believe the bloodbath happened late Wednesday after a fight erupted between Ruiz and Ybe.
"It was physical, beginning on the street, continuing into the apartment," Browne said.
A neighbor who saw the fight said Ruiz "looked crazy." "She was walking away," said Rahmesha Robinson, 22. "He seemed really mad."
Neighbors said the couple fought constantly - often about Ruiz smoking in the apartment near the kids. Fiona Alexander, 25, said she saw Ruiz Friday morning before cops arrived. "He seemed troubled," she said.
"He was walking up and down smoking a cigarette like he was crazy, troubled, nervous, jittery." Ybe's older brother said the girl ran away from home years ago and they last spoke in May.
"She said she was getting a job at a hospital," said Gilberto Ybe, 46.
"She was going to bring her kids around, but she never showed up."
"She had no problem with anyone," he said in tears. "She was a simple girl."
Her murdered children have two different fathers, the brother said.
"Nobody knew the first father. The father of the second was a bad guy, he stole and used drugs."
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