Twin girl, 19, stabbed to death after identical sisters were knifed outside Brooklyn bodega 'after rejecting attacker's advances' as police hunt for jilted suspect
By Dominic Yeatman For Dailymail.Com 20:55 EDT 17 Mar 2024 , updated 01:07 EDT 18 Mar 2024
- Samyia and Sanyia Spain, 19, were harassed at the deli on Sunday morning
- Both NYC women were stabbed by the man. Samyia died from her wounds
The twin girls had been partying with friends when they went to the deli in the early hours of the morning. They rejected the attacker's romantic advances before he stabbed them both, according to witnesses.
'He had a knife in his hand and was saying, 'I'm gonna stab y'all in the face,' heartbroken Sanyia told the Daily News after being released from hospital.
'I'm telling everyone to back up. And he pushed little Samyia to the ground.
Samyia Spain was enjoying a night out with her identical twin sister Sanyia when she was fatally attacked at a bodega in her native Brooklyn
The store in Park Slope was the scene of another notorious murder just three years ago when Latisha Bell, 38, shot dead her girlfriend of 20 years, Nichelle Thomas, 52, in broad daylight
Both women were taken to New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital where Samyia was declared dead and her sister remains in a stable condition
The pair are thought to have been in the same club as their attacker and an accomplice earlier in the evening before they were followed to the store which was heaving with late-night revelers.
As they waited to be served a friend told Sanyia that a man was talking to her sister.
'I grabbed her phone and I was like, 'Come with me, come with me',' Sanyia said.
'I was like, 'Why are you talking to that boy?' She said, 'I don't want to talk to that boy.''
Sanyia said her sister refused to give him her telephone number but gave him her Instagram handle instead.
'She said she wasn't going to follow him back,' Sanyia recounted. 'That's it. She said no.'
Moments later the mood became ugly as the man returned to the store.
'He pushed little Samyia, and then I pushed him,' Sanyia said, 'And then everybody else started pushing him out the door.'
