Investigators are now trying to figure out what led the woman to kill 48-year-old Liza Millet in an eighth-floor room inside the Boerum Hill building that provides housing for low-income and homeless women on Third Ave. near Atlantic Ave.
Millet was stabbed dozens of times in the back, chest and arms, cops said.
“There was a lot of blood,” one police source said.
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The mayhem began about 6:30 a.m. when the attacker, identified by neighbors and police sources as Dorothy Curry, entered Millet’s room and stabbed her with a kitchen knife, cops and residents said.
“This woman stabbed another woman like 40-something times,” one resident, who declined to give her name, told the Daily News. “An old lady told me one day, someday somebody was going to kill someone here.”
Curry ran back to her room — which was just down the hall — and barricaded herself inside. Responding officers forced the door open and took her into custody without incident.
Curry was undergoing a psychiatric examination Saturday. Charges were pending.
"We got a couple of psychos here,” said another resident, who declined to give her name. “It’s scary because you don't know who your neighbor is.”
Millet died after being rushed to New York Methodist Hospital, officials said.
Witnesses said that Curry was banging on her neighbors’ doors before going into Millet’s room.
Resident Regina Zimmerman, 41, described Curry as strange.
“If odd is picking up cigarette butts and talking to yourself, then she was odd,” Zimmerman said. “I don’t do that. I never saw that woman with anybody, actually.”
“I don’t know why this happened,” Zimmerman added. “They’re just saying she went on a rampage. It’s actually really upsetting because most of the women here get along very well.”
Building residents knew Curry as “Dorothy with the dark glasses” because she always wore shades.
“She never took off her glasses for whatever reason,” said Naomi Braxton, 52, who gave Curry two cigarettes just hours before the killing.
“You would never think something in her could trigger her to be that violent,” Braxton said. “That’s so many stabbings.”
Other residents were perplexed by the bloodshed because of the shelter’s tight security protocols.
“We have to sign in and out every time,” said one resident, who wished not to be named. “This is one of the best shelters in New York City. Even the food is better.”
The YWCA forbids tenants from having sharp objects like knives and “always has two or three security guards on duty,” she said.
A Brooklyn YWCA representative said that building security responded immediately and called police.
“Because of their response, no other residents were hurt,” the representative said. “In our entire history we have never had an incident of violence. This is not rare, it’s unprecedented.”
The YWCA said in a statement that agency was “deeply saddened” by the “unexpected loss of life.”
Counseling services are being offered to residents rattled by the violence, a spokeswoman said.
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