The shocked father of a 19-year-old woman stabbed to death by a maniac she rejected outside a Brooklyn mall over the weekend broke down in tears during a memorial service held at the scene Wednesday.
Samia Spain’s father, Stephen Spain, was overcome with emotion as he watched his daughter’s blood still stain the street outside the Park Slope deli where she was murdered.
“How could he take her?” the heartbroken father asked tearfully.
“An animal came out of there and they put a knife in there,” he said, pointing to the building where the suspect was said to have been partying before the attack.
Samia Spain and her sister Sania were with a group of friends and relatives inside Slope Natural Plus on Fourth Avenue around 2:20 a.m. Sunday, police and relatives said. It is said that she was attacked by a man after she refused his invitation.
The stranger, who had been drinking, stabbed Samia in the chest, and she later died at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. Her sister was stabbed in the arm and taken to the same hospital, where she is in stable condition.
“Is this what we have to plan for?” the father said of his daughter’s funeral arrangements. “We just had a graduation ceremony. (Samia) just got a job at Amazon. She got her license.”
The girls’ aunt told the Post on Sunday that the group had attended a house party and then stopped at a local club, and that the suspect was there as well.
The girls’ families and friends demanded the club be closed.
Octavia Bell told the Post on Wednesday that her 18-year-old son, who was seen with the twins in surveillance footage from that night, has struggled with his mental health since the incident.
“He said they were in the store, and the boys came in pretending to be crazy and talking trash. The store owner locked the men out while the kids were still inside. When the store was finished and it was time to leave, the store owners unlocked the doors,” Bell said.
When they returned outside, one of them slapped Samia, and “that’s when the chaos started,” she said.
Bell, who runs a bimonthly cooking club that Samia also attended, said she was worried about her son and daughter, who grew up with her two girls. She said she tried to get the children to see a grief counselor, but they were still upset.
“Counseling is essential. These children are traumatized,” she said.
“My son can’t close his eyes because he’s seeing terrible things,” she added.
No arrests have yet been made in this stabbing incident. Police are searching for two men, one of whom was last seen wearing a ski mask.
