A woman who stabbed a man to death during a fight on a Brooklyn street last week should have hung around to explain herself, the victim’s distraught father says.
Instead, the woman who plunged a knife into Terrence Smith’s abdomen fled the Crown Heights scene and left him to die, police said.
“I really just want to know why,” the victim’s father, Terrence Rivers, told the Daily News. “Just tell me why. Tell me what happened. I wish she would have just stayed there with him. Like, ‘Oh I made a mistake, I shouldn’t have done that.’ Not run, just stayed there with him.”
Police said Smith, 38, was arguing with a woman in front of a building on Eastern Parkway near Utica Ave. when he was slain by her about 11:05 p.m. Tuesday.
As the quarrel turned physical, the woman pushed Smith to the ground, witnesses told police. When he got back up, she pulled a knife and stabbed him in the abdomen.
“My son was very respectful,” the father said. “He was excited. He enjoyed life. I still don’t believe he’s gone myself, to be honest with you. I can’t say nothing bad about my son. That’s my only son. That was my only boy. He’s got five sisters. He was the oldest.”
The killer ran off east on Eastern Parkway and has not been caught. Cops said she was dressed in all black and wearing a multi-colored bonnet, possibly a shower cap,
Medics rushed Smith to Kings County Hospital, where he died.
“My son danced and loved to have fun,” the father said. “He was family oriented as well. He’s loved — I can tell you that much.”
The victim leaves behind two sons who live with their mother in New Jersey. Smith lived in Brownsville, less than a mile away from where he was stabbed, according to cops.
Rivers last spoke to his son a few weeks ago.
“He told me he was working and he was getting his life right,” Rivers said. “He told me he was happy he had a job. He never told me what job it was.”
He said he is not handling his son’s death very well.
“I still think it’s a dream,” he said. “I don’t believe it. I just turned 60 March 31st, so this is a hell of a birthday gift for me.”
Smith’s slaying was the second homicide in the 71st Precinct this year. The precinct had seen one murder by this time last year.
Citywide, murders are down to historic lows, with 69 victims through Sunday compared to 93 slayings during the same timeframe last year, a 26% drop.
With Rebecca White