The killing of 15‑month‑old Charlie Ramraykha in Queens has left a family reeling and a city grasping for answers. His mother, 28‑year‑old Nicole Boodhai, now faces a murder indictment, while relatives say they are struggling to reconcile the devoted parent they thought they knew with the brutality of the charges. As they speak out in the aftermath, their grief is colliding with a criminal case that is only beginning to move through the courts.
What emerges from their accounts is a portrait of a tight‑knit extended family blindsided by a tragedy that unfolded inside a modest Queens home. They describe a young mother who once seemed besotted with her baby boy, even as prosecutors now allege she intentionally took his life and then tried to end her own.
The final hours and a family’s shock
According to relatives, the horror came into focus after On Monday, when police found Boodhai with her wrists slashed beside the body of 15‑month‑old Charlie Ramraykha inside their Queens residence, a scene that family members say they are still struggling to picture without breaking down. Kin of NYC relatives told reporters they had spoken with her shortly before the killing and noticed no obvious sign that anything was about to go so catastrophically wrong, a disconnect that has deepened their anguish as they replay those conversations in their minds.
Just before Christmas, they recall, Boodhai chatted excitedly about how Charlie would run to the door and how she loved to scoop him up and cradle him right away, a memory that now feels almost unbearable in light of the charges that she later killed the same child she doted on. One relative described how the news “hit hard,” saying the family of a Queens mother who had seemed so devoted to her son could not understand how they ended up planning a funeral instead of another holiday gathering, a sentiment echoed in their accounts to investigators and reporters…