A man who paid $9,000 to have his girlfriend smuggled in from Guyana stabbed her to death in Brooklyn yesterday after she tried to break up with him, police said.
Vanessa Bailey, 26, the mother of a 7-year-old girl, was stabbed in the chest with a kitchen knife just three weeks after coming to the U.S., a law enforcement source said.
Cops came and arrested Henry Jacobs, 37, after the woman's brother Edwin Bailey, 21 - nicknamed "Shaq" for his size - dragged him into the hallway of her family's Flatbush home and pummeled him about 3 p.m.
"He was roughing him up and screaming, 'Why did you have to do that to my sister?'" said Ricardo Bristol, 32, who lives across the hall in the Lincoln Road building.
Jacobs had paid an immigrant-smuggling ring to bring her from their native Guyana through Canada, police said. Both were here illegally, police said.
The victim's mother, Jacqueline Bailey, 46, disputed the police version of events.
"I'm numb and in disbelief," she said, fighting tears.
Her daughter had shown up unexpectedly three weeks ago, but was going to return to Guyana and her job as a beautician around Christmas. Her daughter had a visa, she said.
Bailey had become romantically linked to Jacobs, a phone book deliveryman, about four years ago, but lately he suspected her of seeing other men, sources said. Jacobs was especially jealous of her relationship with the father of her 7-year-old girl in East New York, the victim's mother said.
"At first, he was okay," she said before breaking down. "Then, after a while, he showed signs of being possessive. I told her she had to get away from him."
Jacobs was charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon. Police recovered a kitchen knife at the scene.
