Wife of man killed in Brooklyn NYCHA building cleans up blood after watching him ‘die in front of me’
The wife of a Brooklyn man gunned down in a robbery was left to clean his blood up from their apartment, where her wounded husband had sought refuge.
Jason Andrades, 49, was caught up in a weeks-old drug feud when he was targeted by three people on the first floor of the Red Hook Houses around 9:25 a.m. Thursday, cops and the victim’s wife said.
He fought back with a machete he was carrying, stabbing one of his assailants before he was shot once in the leg, his wife told the Daily News on Sunday.
“He didn’t even know he was shot, it was too much adrenaline,” said Alexandria Lyons. “I said, ‘What’s the matter? Babe, what’s the matter?’ He dropped the machete and it was so much blood.”
The woman wrapped his wound and waited for an ambulance to arrive.
Andrades was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he later died.
“When the cops came they were stunned to see inside because there was blood everywhere,” Lyons recalled.
At the hospital, Andrades suffered seven heart attacks and was put on life support.
“They said he wasn’t going to make it, he lost too much blood,” Lyons recalled. “The doctors did everything they could do for him.
“I watched him die in front of me,” she added.
The fatal shooting marked the end of a lengthy feud between Andrades and his killers. Lyons suspects the men were trying to rob her husband of drugs, but he didn’t have any.
“My husband was defending himself and these guys robbed him three [separate] times,” Lyons said.
In recent weeks, Andrades and the men fought numerous times, including an incident in which the attackers stripped her husband of his clothing and beat him, she said.
“They punched him in the face the first time [and] they robbed him for 50 cents,” she told The News. “They kicked him in the face every time.”
The woman believes her husband’s attackers are teenagers who hang around outside the building and terrorize residents and guests.
“My husband wasn’t selling drugs. I made him stop selling drugs, so he wasn’t selling drugs,” Lyons said. “Every time they came they thought he [still] had drugs, so they were trying to rob him.”
Due to his prior run-ins with the teens, Andrades began carrying a machete.
“He would have it just in case,” Lyons said. “This was an ongoing problem with these kids.”
Lyons described her husband as a man who had flaws but was extremely social and loving to those he cared for.
“Don’t get me wrong — he wasn’t a great person, but he was a good person,” Lyons said. “He had the biggest heart, he would give you the shirt off his back.”
Andrades, towering over most at 6-foot-3, enjoyed drawing and spending time with Lyons and her son.
“He would do anything for my son, for me, for my neighbors,” she recalled.
Police are still working to track down the man’s killer, a hunt that has left Lyons shaken and fearful to stay in her apartment.
“I’m getting an emergency transfer. I’m out of here,” she said. “I don’t even want to go outside.”
