A pair of 19-year-old twin sisters were stabbed at a Brooklyn bodega early Sunday after rejecting their attacker’s advances — with one of the teens killed in the assault and the other hospitalized in stable condition.
Samyia Spain and her sister, Sanyia, were with a group of friends and relatives inside Slope Natural Plus on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope around 2:20 a.m. when the two were attacked, police and sources said.
According to relatives, the attack came after the suspect tried to hit on the two girls but was shot down.
“He walked in and started hitting on her,” Alphonso Goodson, the girls’ grandfather, told The Post. “She said, ‘I don’t want to be bothered with you. Leave me alone.’ Then the store owner put him out.
“He started kicking on the door, he started banging on the door,” Goodson said. “I don’t know if they called the police, but at that time [the store owner] should have called. And then when [the twins] left the store, that’s when he attacked them.
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“He was waiting for them,” he added. “He took it the wrong way. He came after them. That was wrong. That was dead wrong. I hope they catch this guy.”
Samyia was stabbed in the chest and was later pronounced dead at New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, while her sister was stabbed in the arm and was listed in stable condition at the hospital.
The twins had been with friends at a party earlier in the night, a woman who identified herself as the slain teen’s godmother told The Post.
“She was with her mother and sister,” the woman, who would only give her name as China, said Sunday. “It was a whole bunch of them. They had a game night.
“I don’t even know who he is,” she said of the attacker, who remains on the loose. “I’ve never seen him.”
Distraught loved ones gathered outside the slain teen’s apartment building just hours after the fatal attack and mere blocks from the bodega to set up a makeshift memorial with flowers, teddy bears and candles.
“She was a very good person,” one friend told The Post. “She was in school, she was working. She was very lovable. She didn’t start any trouble. All she wanted to do was have fun. She didn’t have to go out like that.
“She wasn’t like a party girl,” the friend said. “It was her first time trying to go out to have fun.”
In a post on her Instagram page, Samyia Spain appears to be getting a tattoo on Saturday, seemingly looking forward to the party.
“Game night at 9 pop out,” a message on the page reads.
The next post shows the time as 9:23 p.m.
“My friends looking for me in the club but I’m drunk making new friends,” she wrote in her last post, which shows her smiling inside an apartment.
But the girls’ aunt told The Post on Sunday that the group did stop off at a local club after their house party — and said the suspect was there as well.
However, Spain didn’t know her assailant, her friend added before blaming the attack on the city’s lack of funding for mental health services.
“It was some random person. It’s surprising, very surprising. It was a kitchen knife,” the friend said.
“You know who I blame? The government, for the simple fact, y’all cut all these mental health (care) off, and now look who’s running out here,” they added. “Those are the people that don’t get in trouble. There are a thousand cameras and there is no arrest.”
A woman at the memorial told The Post through tears that Spain was her goddaughter.
“They better catch him, she don’t deserve that,” she said.
The women went to the deli after a party and encountered two men who made advances toward them and became incensed after they rejected their moves.
“They’re not sober. They get rejected and they just escalated it ten-fold. We (were) all having a good night before this,” the witness said. “We just had left and we went to the store to get food. We all were getting sandwiches, beef patties just to eat. We’re hungry and want to go home and this happens.”
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The two men fled, according to the report.
No arrests have been made and the police investigation is ongoing.
“We’re all taking it very hard,” Goodson said. “My daughter, she’s taking it pretty hard. We never expect nothing like this to happen.”
The overnight stabbings took place outside the same bodega where a woman allegedly executed her ex-girlfriend in broad daylight in a sudden, brazen attack that was captured on surveillance video in 2021.
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