SPEECHLESS IN STATEN ISLAND: Who Is C.J. Jones?

The signs were there.

The 14-year-old suspected of wiping out his family in a murder-suicide had a troubling fascination with fire.

Staffers at Intermediate School 72 on Staten Island recommended C.J. Jones get psychiatric counseling after he set several small fires there, sources said.

It was unknown if his mother, Leisha Jones, enrolled him, but it is clear that while he sometimes seemed like a happy, doting older brother, C.J. was grappling with inner demons.

'I can't believe what they're telling me. He's no killer,' C.J.'s grandmother, Marcia Anderson, 50, of Washington, D.C., told the Daily News, adding that the D.C. cops informed her of the murder-suicide.

As of Thursday night, she hadn't been able to reach NYPD detectives to get more information.

C.J., his mom and siblings visited Anderson recently and she insisted he exhibited no signs of being troubled.

'He was a nice boy,' she said. 'He kept touching my face, hugging me, saying, 'Grandma, you okay?'