Shocked neighbors reacted Tuesday to a ghastly murder-suicide that left a Brooklyn man and his girlfriend dead — with one dazed relative railing “i f–king hate you” to the deceased killer.
Teddy Knight and Tanezia Blockwood, of Midwood, had always had a loud, stormy relationship, neighbors told The Post on Wednesday.
But Knight, 35, took it to another level Monday when he allegedly put two bullets in the mother of his kids, then stomped on her face, according to his mom, Norma Knight.
“I think I’m still processing it,” a 26-year-old neighbor told The Post. “This is literally a state of shock for me. You never know what people are going through on a daily basis … everyone I’ve spoken to in the building is [also] in a state of shock … this is unheard of.
“It’s sad … Why did it end like this? What caused it?” he lamented.
Another neighbor — whose apartment shares a wall with the deceased couple’s home — said she would hear arguments from time to time, but they “didn’t go on for long.”
Sometimes she would hear Knight arguing with his mom, too. But the squabbles would never escalate, the 30-year-old told The Post.
“I saw them last week, when they brought the children home,” she said. “The mother had the baby in her arms — she always carries the baby — and the little girl was holding the dad’s hand.”
The neighbor was sitting in front of her living room TV when she heard gunfire crackle through the Monday morning calm.
“I heard shots — I thought it was something coming from outside, a truck or something,” she said. “But then I heard the mother screaming and I heard the cops. When they came, she came out crying … saying, ‘Oh my God! Oh my God!’
“The cops were asking her questions, but she couldn’t talk,” the neighbor continued. “She was crying, she was distraught. They had to bring her to the third floor. She could not stop crying.
“I heard five shots, [and] I heard the police officer say, ‘Teddy,’” she added. “That’s how I knew he was involved. But I didn’t think he died … I was really shocked. Maybe he was under stress.”
In a previous interview, mother Norma Knight told The Post that the couple’s final argument began the night before — and it was loud enough that it kept her awake.
“Then this morning I got up, and I heard them making noise,” she said. “And when I got out from the bedroom, I see she’s pushing clothes inside a laundry bag.
“[The] two of them start cussing and fighting and end up in the bathroom.”
Norma watched in horror as her son took a gun from the cupboard and began shooting the mother of her grandchildren, she said.
“He gave her two bullets, and she fell on the floor and then he stomped her in her face,” said Knight, 65, who shared the Avenue I and Ocean Avenue apartment with the couple.
Then he shot himself — right in front of his devastated mother.
When the cops got there around 10 a.m., they found two corpses with gunshot wounds lying near the kitchen, according to authorities.
Norma said the couple argued regularly over the kids, the rent and their finances.
“It boiled over,” she said.
Michael Blockwood, who appears to be Tanezia’s uncle, reacted with rage on Facebook late Monday.
“I wasn’t going to say anything but teddy you are a real punk B—h for what you did,” Michael Blockwood wrote above a photo of his niece. “You killed my f–king Niece then killed yourself I f–king hate you.”
“Yoo nee nee I got you baby rest easy baby I love you,” he continued.
Some in the building said there was no indication of the turmoil under the surface.
“She was friendly, she’d say hi,” the 30-year-old neighbor said. “Teddy was really cool, a down-to-earth person. He seemed easy-going to me. I didn’t see this coming, not at all.
“They have never had any issues with anyone in the building,” another neighbor said. “There was never a time in passing when they didn’t say good morning or smile.”
But another resident — who considered Tanezia a friend — said Teddy didn’t respect his mother and argued with his family all the time.
Tanezia — whom he called a “beautiful girl who took good care of the kids” — had wanted out of the relationship for at least two years, he claimed.
“She did not tell me what was going on, but I could sense something wasn’t right,” the 54-year-old man said. “I could tell she was looking for someone to talk to, she wasn’t happy.
“She told me she was going to nursing school, she was trying to better herself,” he continued. “She was staying there to save some money.”
Another woman who lives on the other side of the building agreed — saying Knight was a classically insecure man who was jealous and possessive of the “well-mannered, classy” Blockwood.
“I heard he had a violent past and that he slapped her in the hallway,” she said. “What a nightmare. It’s like a dark cloud hanging over the building.”
An older man who lives on the second was sickened when he heard what happened.
“If you cannot be together, you don’t have to destroy your lives!” he told The Post.
“You also destroy other people’s lives, too!”