The maniac who stabbed a 30-year-old mom to death during a barbecue at a Brooklyn park was enraged because she turned down his advances – and carried out the horrifying attack in front of the victim’s 7-year-old son, according to the NYPD.
Shakeema Davis, 30, was stabbed repeatedly in the head and body inside Lincoln Terrace–Arthur S. Somers Park at Rochester Avenue and Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights around 12:41 a.m. Tuesday, authorities said.
The violence unfolded during a gathering that Davis herself had organized – and her future killer called her to find out where it was happening, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.
“He shows up to the location,” Kenny said. “Throughout the course of the evening, everybody’s hanging out, drinking, smoking, listening to music. Our eventual stabber keeps soliciting her – our victim – for sex. She keeps saying no. They’re arguing. It’s verbal. It turns physical.”
“After she throws a drink on him, he begins to assault her,” the chief added. “She actually picks up the barbecue in an attempt to get him away from her and strikes him with the barbecue. Once he’s struck with the barbecue, he pulls out a knife and stabs her three times, causing her death.”
Davis was rushed to Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, where she succumbed to her injuries, police said.
Investigators have identified a strong person of interest, as well as the car he used to flee the scene, but have not yet reached probable cause to arrest him, Kenny said.
“We believe the stabber and the victim did have a prior relationship, which is why he was invited to the party, which is why he was consistently basically annoying her for sex,” the chief added.
But the victim’s mother, Adra Pegues, 60, told The Daily News the two only went on one date – and her daughter did not want to continue seeing him.
“He wasn’t her type. Some people won’t take no for an answer,” Pegues said. “She went out on a date and felt, ‘Oh no, not that one.’”
“I don’t have the words for him,” the grieving mom told the paper. “He was a coward. A weak man. People like that aren’t supposed to be on earth.”
Between 15 and 20 people – including Davis’ young son – were on the scene when she was killed, Kenny said.
“We have interviewed two or three people that are telling us they saw the incident and did try to apprehend the perp and hold him for police, but the guy kept swinging the knife at the ground,” the chief said.
Davis’ long-time friend, Freddie, told WPIX he immediately jumped into action in an attempt to save her.
“I took my shirt off and tied it around her to compress her wounds,” an emotional Freddie recounted. “I tried to save her, and she took her last three breaths in my arms.”
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