I Am Getting Sick of this

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‘SLAY' MOM A SECRET ANGEL DUST JUNKIE: PALS
Sun Jul 28, 3:33 AM ET
By GEORGETT ROBERTS

The Brooklyn mom accused of butchering her 7-year-old daughter led a Jekyll-and-Hyde life for years - looking respectable to the outside world, while in the thrall of angel dust, say friends.

The combination of that drug, an imminent eviction and a fight with her child's father the night before apparently sent Yolanda Billingslea, 27, into a frenzy Friday, when she allegedly killed her daughter, Tashima.

"She just flipped," said Melinda, a longtime family friend who would not reveal her last name. "That drug put her to the edge. It caused her to get her own child. How can you have so much love for your own child and do that to her?"

"If you knew [Billingslea], you would never know that she was into anything," Melinda added. A neighbor named Ms. Curry said: "I've never seen her with a can of beer, never seen her acting funny." But another neighbor said, "She's been doing angel dust for maybe about five years."

Cops said that while they are aware of claims of prior drug use, they don't know if Billingslea was on angel dust when she argued with Tashima, and stabbed her 30 times. They are awaiting the results of toxicological tests.

Billingslea also stabbed a friend, Iashia Byrd, who tried to stop the attack, and then stabbed herself, police said.

Billingslea was in guarded condition and Byrd in stable condition in different hospitals yesterday.

Billingslea's grandmother, Ruby Jean Walls, said she spent Thursday with Billingslea and noticed no emotional problems.

But she said Billingslea and Tashima's father, who had vacated the house several nights before, argued Thursday night. Police had been to the house on domestic violence complaints at least twice in the last two years, records show.