The niece of a Bronx man who shot his mother, daughter and daughter’s boyfriend in a horrific triple-murder-suicide says he had been her “protector” before mental health and substance abuse struggles derailed his life.

Kaseem Stukes, 44, shot to death his 75-year-old mother, his 26-year-old daughter and his daughter’s 33-year-old boyfriend inside the family’s apartment inside NYCHA’s Castle Hill Houses last Wednesday before turning the gun on himself.

His niece, Dominique Stukes, told the Daily News Kaseem had been a good person before the horrific slayings.

“My uncle, only eight years older than me, was like a brother to me,” she said in an email exchange with a Daily News reporter. “Even though we had our differences he was he was my first male role model. He taught me how to fight

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