19-year-old twin sisters were stabbed in a Brooklyn bodega early Sunday after refusing their attacker’s advances, leaving one of them dead and the other hospitalized in stable condition.
Around 2:20 a.m., Samyia Spain and her sister Sanyia were attacked inside Slope Natural Plus on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope while they were with a group of friends and family, according to the NYPD.
The women were allegedly visiting a nearby deli after a house party when they ran into two men who approached them and got angry when the twins turned them down.
“He walked in and started hitting on her,” grandfather Alphonso Goodson told The New York 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.”
While her sister was stabbed in the arm and was reported in stable condition at the hospital, Samyia was stabbed in the chest and later declared dead at New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.
Only a few streets from the bodega, and hours after the deadly attack, distraught family members gathered outside the dead teen’s apartment building to erect a makeshift monument complete with candles, teddy bears, and flowers.
As of Monday morning, no arrest has been made.
