NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – A Brooklyn man was arrested on a murder charge Friday in connection with the stabbing of twin sisters at a Park Slope deli last weekend, police said.
Veo Kelly, 20, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, was charged with murder, assault and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in Sunday morning's stabbing.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Thursday that the U.S. Marshals were searching for Kelly in the stabbing, which left one sister dead and her twin other wounded.
The 19-year-old sisters—Samyia and Sanyia Spain—were stabbed around 2:20 a.m. Sunday after rejecting the advances of two men at the Natural Plus deli at St. Marks Place and Fourth Avenue, according to police and witnesses.
One of the drunk men repeatedly flirted with the sisters at the deli, but the women said they weren't interested and the men angrily stormed off.
However, one of the men—alleged to be Kelly—soon returned with a knife and started pounding on the door of the deli, which had been locked by a deli worker, police and witnesses said.
He eventually walked away, but the "second they opened the door, he ran back in and started attacking them," a witness said.
He stabbed Samyia in the neck and chest, police said. Sanyia was stabbed in the arm but managed to call 911.
Both sisters were transported to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where Samyia was pronounced dead and Sanyia was listed in stable condition.
Friends described the two sisters as inseparable, while the deli's owner said they were regulars who often hung out there.