Cops: We know who killed 19-year-old, wounded twin sis

Cops have identified the suspect they believe stabbed twin sisters, one fatally, outside a Brooklyn bodega after they spurned his advances.

Veo Kelly, 20, remained on the loose Thursday but NYPD detectives have been contacted by his attorney, who is trying to broker a surrender, officials said.

“We did a search warrant in (Kelly’s) apartment and recovered the clothes he was wearing during the incident,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at a news briefring. “Our Regional Fugitive Task Force is hunting him.”

Kelly had just left a party hall down the street from the Natural Plus deli in Park Slope around 1:30 a.m. Sunday when he encountered Samyia and Sanyia Spain.

The 19-year-old twins were getting food in the bodega on the corner of Fourth Ave. and St. Marks Place when Kelly started chatting them up.

“He was very aggressive to one of the girls, trying to get her contact information,” Kenny said. “When they didn’t take to his advances, it got verbal and it got physical.”

Police believe Kelly stabbed Samyia in the chest and neck. Medics took her to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Brooklyn Methodist, but she couldn’t be saved. Her sister was taken to the same hospital in stable condition with a stab wound to the arm, cops said.

At Kelly’s Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment building Thursday, the superintendent told the Daily News the man’s mother left the city shortly after cops executed a warrant in her home.

After the slaying, three men went door-todoor looking for Kelly, neighbors said.

“There were three thugs who came for him over the weekend,” said a resident who did not want to be named. “They were drunk going from apartment to apartment.”

The men allegedly threw a brick through a neighbor’s window in an attempt to intimidate Kelly, the woman claimed.

“They didn’t know what apartment [Kelly] was in,” she said. “It scared the hell out of us.”

The alleged killer has been terrorizing the building for years, according to neighbors.

“He’s not right in the head,” the resident said of Kelly. “There’s been all kinds of incidents. We want him out of the building.”

Kenny said the suspect never met the twins before and had just happened to show up at the bodega when the two victims were there.

“He came from the hall drunk,” Kenny said. The twins had showed up at the bodega after attending a family game night, relatives previously said.

“He’s from Bushwick, so he’s never down there,” Kenny said of the suspect. “They’re all in there after a night out ordering food.”

In an exclusive interview with The News on Sunday, the surviving twin said she knew Kelly was trouble and was trying to get her sister away from him.

“I grabbed her phone and I was like, ‘Come with me, come with me,’” Sanyia recalled. “I was like, ‘Why are you talking to that boy?’ She said, ‘I don’t want to talk to that boy.’”

Samyia didn’t want to give the man her phone number, so she provided her Instagram handle instead, her sister said.

“She said she wasn’t going to follow him back,” Sanyia recounted. “That’s it. She said no.”

A bodega worker who knew the sisters saw the killer being aggressive and threw him out, outraging the attacker, who began arguing with the sisters outside the store.

Cops have surveillance footage of the suspect inside and outside the deli. The killing, Kenny said, happened off camera.

After the horrifying attack, Samyia’s sibling made panicked calls to family.

“She says, ‘Granddaddy, Samyia got stabbed and she died,” the twins’ grandfather Alphonso Goodson, 66, told The News “I couldn’t believe it.”