NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WBS 880) – Police continued to search Monday for the man who fatally stabbed a Brooklyn woman and wounded her twin sister at a Park Slope deli early Sunday.
The 19-year-old sisters—Samyia and Sanyia Spain—were stabbed around 2:20 a.m. Sunday after declining 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 them 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.
No arrests had been reported Monday as the search for the killer continued.
No image or description of him has been released yet by police.