The ex-husband of a Queens woman allegedly killed by her boyfriend alongside two of his tenants Tuesday was unable to make sense of her “shocking” murder.
Steve Fields, 63, told The Post that the violent death of Coleen Caesar by her new boyfriend David Daniel was “devastating, shocking and hurtful.”
“If you are under pressure and the relationship is not working, then move on, separate,” Fields said in an interview Wednesday.
Daniel stands accused of fatally stabbing her and his two tenants, Wayne Thomas, 57, and Evette Sweeney, 55, in his St. Albans home where they all lived.
Cops found the bodies after the landlord walked into a local precinct and calmly said “I did something bad,” according to police sources.
Daniel, 54, told cops he was “having issues” with his tenants over unpaid rent and later told The Post “pure pressure” led him to allegedly kill the three victims.
Fields said he cannot fathom why Caesar — his former partner of a decade who was also known by her married name — was targetted in the deadly knife attack.
She was found lying face-down in a second-floor bedroom with her throat slashed and multiple stab wounds, law enforcement sources said.
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“Despite what you’re going through, you don’t murder your girlfriend,” he said. “You have issues with the tenants, it has nothing to do with her.”
Caesar, 51, was originally from Guyana and has two adult children and one grandchild of her own, according to Fields. He said they remained friends after separating in 2019 and finalizing their divorce in 2021.
“Colleen was a loving and gentle person and had a big heart,” Fields, 63, said. “We had our good times. It wasn’t working out, we went our separate ways, but remained friends and still talk.”
He said he never met Daniel or knew much about him and doesn’t understand why his ex was murdered if it was truly a landlord-tenant dispute.
“It doesn’t make sense — the tenants and the girlfriend? How do you connect both?” Fields questioned. “I still cannot understand it.”
Fields and Caesar were together for 10 years — and married for six-and-a-half of those, he said.
“We were married. We were happy,” he said. “Things changed. There was stress. But I didn’t take it out on the person that I love.”
