Is There More To This Story?
By: Tommy “Tj” Sotomayor

Is the case below a case that could have been avoided had the black teens involved been taught that not trying to get a man told can save your life?

Recently, Sanyia Spain spoke to the New York Daily News, to explain how she tried to save her twin sister, Samyia, before she was stabbed to death by allegedly by a drunken man who was following her.

On Sunday, during a family game night, the twin sisters decided to take a walk with their brother to a bodega in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

When someone close by told Sanyia that a man was following her sister, she immediately took action. She said she took her sister’s phone and told her to “come with me” and asked her why she was talking to that man.

Samyia made it clear that she didn’t want to interact with him, but only gave him her Instagram account and not her phone number, according to the New York Daily News.

This led to the mystery man arguing with the teens and eventually leaving the bodega, before coming back just a short time later.

Sanyia recalled pushing the man in retaliation after he initially pushed her sister. This led to a bodega worker kicking out the man. While Sanyia and Samyia got their food, the store was locked behind them. But once they got outside, the mystery man allegedly returned with friends and a knife.

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“He had a knife in his hand and was saying, ‘I’m gonna stab y’all in the face,’” Sanyia said. “I’m telling everyone to back up. And he pushed little Samyia to the ground.”

When it appeared the knifeman was going to charge toward Samyia, the twins’ older brother stepped in and punched him.

The man fell to the ground as the group started brawling.

“As I was going to grab [Samyia’s phone], he stabbed me in my arm,” Sanyia said of the knife-wielding attacker. “Samyia then asked him to give her the phone back, and he stabbed her in the neck.”

Samyia was also stabbed in the chest.

The paramedics later took both twins to a local Brooklyn hospital where Samyia was pronounced dead. To no surprise, their family was shocked and has since created a memorial outside of their home to remember young Samyia, according to the New York Daily News.

Twin sisters stabbed, 1 killed outside Brooklyn bodega

Brooklyn twin sisters stabbed

Two 19-year-old twin sisters were stabbed outside the Natural Plus Bodega in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and one of them, identified as Samyia Spain, died from her injuries, according to the NYPD.

BROOKLYN – Alphonso Goodson is facing a level of grief he never imagined he’d feel after getting a sobering phone call Sunday about his granddaughter, 19-year-old Samyia Spain.

“She said granddaddy, Samiya got stabbed and she died,” Goodson said. “I couldn’t believe it. My wife started crying and everything.”

Timeline: Park Slope stabbing

The NYPD received the call about a stabbing around 2:20 a.m. after someone stabbed Samyia and her twin sister right outside the Natural Plus Bodega in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Mohammed Albhar, who works at the store, watched the girls grow up.

“They’re very nice girls, I know the family,” Albhar said. “It’s so sad to see one of them gone. One of them she passed away.”

“A guy in all black had stabbed one of the girls in her neck and the other in her arm and ran.”— Witness

A witness on scene said some guys were hanging out at the store, hitting on the group of girls who’d just walked in.

‘They said no’

“One of the guys had complimented the two girls that walked in with their friends, and they said no,” the witness recalled. 

The groups started going back and forth arguing before one of the men walked down the block angrily, according to the witness.

Minutes later, one of the men, in his early 20’s, they said, came banging and kicking in the bodega doors with the girls still inside.

Workers locked the door until he walked away again and when they unlocked the door, that’s when the attack happened. 

“I think every father will think about something like this happening. That’s the worst call you can get.”— Teen dad

“A guy in all black had stabbed one of the girls in her neck and the other in her arm and ran,” a witness added.

The man behind the stabbing left what appeared to be the knife he used on scene.

Officials expect Samyia’s twin sister to be OK, while the workers who witnessed the brutal attack, too, have their scars.

‘They were so sad about it’

“When I came in, they went out. They looked like on their faces they were so sad about it,” Albhar said.

The news is reinforcing nearly every father’s fear.

“I think every father will think about something like this happening. That’s the worst call you can get. Something happening to your daughter,” said a teen dad who lives just up the block from the attack. 

So far, police haven’t made an arrest in the case. Anyone with any information about the stabbing is asked to reach out to police.