Tragedy for twins
2 knifed, 1 dies and 1 survives in B’klyn
A pair of 19-year-old twin sisters were stabbed at a Brooklyn bodega early Sunday morning 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 rebuffed.
“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 storeowner 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 storeowner] should have called. And then when [the twins] left the store, that’s when he attacked them.
‘He was waiting’
“He was waiting for them,” Goodson 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 in stable condition.
The twins had been with friends at a party earlier, 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.
“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.”
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.
No arrests have been made and the police investigation is ongoing. Two men reportedly fled the scene.
The overnight stabbings took place outside of the same bodega where a woman allegedly executed her ex-girlfriend in broad daylight on surveillance video in 2021.