The brute who allegedly beat his wife’s 3-year-old daughter to death because she soiled her pants told a pathetic self-serving story to a relative — he just “tapped’’ her and the bruises all over her body were the result of his attempts to give CPR.
Police caught 20-year-old Kelsey (Shawn) Smith at his aunt’s Queens home hours after he killed the girl, Jeida, and viciously punched the child’s 5-year-old brother, Andrew, law enforcement sources said.
A neighbor who called 911 told the operator that the kids were desperately screaming “Stop! Stop! Stop!’’ one source said.
Angelica Collazo, the sister of Smith’s step-father Ivan Collazo, said, “my brother told him to `man up’ and pay for his mistake.
While at her home, Collazo said, “Shawn cut his wrists.
“He did it both ways, up and down and side to side. He said he wanted to be with Jeida?and that’s why he tried to kill himself.
“He said he didn’t mean to hurt her. It was an accident.’’
The beatings took place in the family’s apartment in a Brooklyn homeless shelter Saturday afternoon.
“He said the baby was being fussy. He punished her, put her in the corner, in her room. He said she came out of the room and then he said he just went to tap her, like on her arm and he said, ‘I caught her in the chest, but she was OK.’
“He said she was able to stand up afterward but a few minutes later he said he saw her on the floor and she was not OK.
“He tried to do CPR on her but he didn’t know how to do CPR on a baby. That’s why she was all bruised up on her chest.’’
He called 911 for an ambulance as well as his wife, Kimberly, who he married “a few months ago,’’ Collazo said. “Then he got scared and came here.’’
A police source confirmed that Smith called 911.
Little Andrew was in stable condition at Wyckoff Heights Hospital.
While at his aunt’s home, Smith was persuaded to call his mother. He hung up on her and she tipped cops to where he was hiding, a source said.
Collazo said her brother Ivan “raised Sean since he was 10-years-old’’ and insisted. “He is not a monster.’’
She claimed the kids were never afraid of him and recently Andrew “said to me, `Sean is my best friend. ’ ’’
Smith has a sealed arrest record including gang assault, three robberies as an adult and two as a juvenile.
He was in custody at Elmhurst Hospital on Sunday.