A Staten Island mother was stabbed to loss of life exterior the NYCHA constructing the place she lived throughout a wild brawl involving about 20 ladies — and her 12-year-old daughter, cops and neighbors stated Wednesday.
Jennira Roundtree, 43, was knifed twice in the course of the melee exterior the West Brighton Homes on Henderson Ave. close to Broadway about 7:35 p.m. Tuesday, cops stated.
A neighbor heard a gaggle of ladies choosing a combat with Roundtree’s daughter and believes Roundtree died defending her.
Earlier than Roundtree apparently intervened, pals of her daughter bumped into the constructing to summon her older sister for assist, in line with neigbors.
“Some girls come in to fight with the little girl and some friends they go upstairs and then the sister was coming,” stated the 30-old-neighbor. “I don’t know where her mom came from. Maybe she was outside (already).”
Scaffolding obscured the neighbor’s imaginative and prescient however that she might hear all the pieces.
“A friend of the (victim’s 12-year-old daughter) runs away to the building, to like let (the victim’s older daughter) know about her sister. The sister comes and she starts fighting with the girls,” stated the neighbor.
“When I see the sister fighting I said ‘Let me go downstairs’ because I know those kids. There were a lot of people fighting.”
By the point she bought downstairs Roundtree was on the bottom.
“The police took her,” she stated. “When they carried her, I saw she had a lot of blood. I heard her say, ‘I can’t breathe!’ That’s the only thing she said.”
“I think it’s around over here,” she stated of the sufferer’s seen wound, pointing to an space below her chest.
Medics rushed Roundtree to Richmond College Medical Middle however she couldn’t be saved.
The knife used to kill her was recovered on the scene, police stated. Cops stated the sufferer was additionally slashed with an umbrella.
There have been no speedy arrests.
The sufferer’s mom, Jenna Roundtree, stated she and her grandchildren had been distraught.
“She was my eldest daughter,” she stated. “Just pray for the family.”
Cops stated Roundtree had seven prior arrests and 10 home incident studies. It wasn’t clear if she was a sufferer or perpetrator within the home incident studies, which frequently contain fights or different disturbances.
“This is not the time to speak right now,” a distraught lady who answered the door at Roundtree’s residence advised the Each day Information. “She was a great mother… and she lost her life.”
Neighbors stated Roundtree was the mom of two older boys along with the 2 daughters and labored safety.
“I saw her earlier yesterday,” the neighbor stated Wednesday. “She was in the front of the building with the little one, around like 4:25 p.m. I can’t sleep. I can’t believe this happened.”
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