Heartbreaking photos emerge of NYC twins stabbed by madman as friends mourn sister who died
A family friend described the 19-year-old woman stabbed to death outside a Brooklyn deli early Sunday morning as an “outgoing and smart” music lover whose life was cut dreadfully short — as photos emerged that showed the victim and her twin sister posing during happier times.
“She was a beautiful young girl,” said Yvette Ramos of her friend, 19-year-old Samyia Spain, who died after a blade-wielding maniac attacked her because she allegedly refused to follow him on Instagram.
“She was outgoing and smart,” Ramos continued. “She didn’t deserve that. She was always smiling, never with an attitude … She was passionate about music, loved it so much. [But] she had other dreams too.”
The brute who stabbed Samyia and her twin sister Sanyia after an overnight argument in a Park Slope bodega was still on the loose Tuesday.
Ramos — who has known Spain’s mom, Lashawn Goodson, since Goodson was pregnant with the two girls — added that the family was full of “very, very good people” who sit utterly broken after the young girl’s death.
“Samyia will be missed by everyone in her community,” Ramos said. “Her life was cut so short … trying to keep her parents strong is what we have to do in the community, and support them in every way.”
Cops said the twins were with a group of friends and relatives inside Slope Natural Plus on Fourth Avenue at about 2:20 a.m. Sunday when they were attacked.
The suspect allegedly followed the twins into the bodega and tried to hit on them, but they shot him down, according to store workers and family.
“He walked in and started hitting on her,” Alphonso Goodson, the girls’ grandfather, previously told The Post. “She said, ‘I don’t want to be bothered with you. Leave me alone.’ Then the store owner put him out.”
The failed suitor went wild after that, kicking the door and slamming on the glass, Goodson added.
The unhinged man — who had apparently been drinking — was still out there when the twins left, armed with a blade and telling them he was gonna “stab y’all in the face,” Sanyia recounted.
A brawl broke out — and Samyia was stabbed in the chest and neck during the fight.
Authorities rushed both girls to New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where Samyia was later pronounced dead.
Sanyia, meanwhile, has since been released.
No arrests have been made yet in the slashings, as police continue to search for two men — one of whom was last seen wearing a ski mask.
“The store got the video,” Goodson said. “Somebody knows, somebody’s gonna come forward.”
On Tuesday, a representative from an outreach agency that is housed in the Wycoff Gardens Houses under the Mayor’s Office participated in the presser, told The Post that he held a press conference outside the deli to “denounce this senseless violence.”
“We were calling for the individual who committed this crime to turn himself in — him and his cohort, who I believe is now under investigation by the police department,” representative Tony Herbert said.
“The goal is realistically to first and foremost say, ‘Don’t put your hands on a woman,’” he continued. “There’s no need for that. She said no, and no meant no.”
