The thriller behind what led to the killing of a beloved mom and member of a New York Metropolis neighborhood who was stabbed to dying in an enormous brawl is perhaps unraveled by a social media dispute that reportedly concerned her daughter.
Jennira Roundtree was recognized to a lot of her neighbors in a city-run condominium advanced on Staten Island. The 43-year-old safety guard and mom of 4 usually devoted her private sources to internet hosting weekly summer time barbecues that introduced her neighborhood collectively.
“All the time strolling round with a smile, all the time serious about, oh, how may we get some cash collectively to barbecue for these youngsters in order that they’re not out within the streets for the summer time, let’s maintain a barbecue each weekend,” Roundtree’s pal advised ABC7 anonymously.
That’s why her dying was so surprising and devastating to the many individuals who knew her.
In response to the New York Day by day Information, Roundtree was knifed twice within the chest and slashed within the abdomen with an umbrella within the warmth of a brawl involving 20 ladies on Jan. 7 at NYCHA’s West Brighton Homes — the identical advanced the place she hosted neighborhood occasions.
She was rushed to a neighborhood hospital, the place she died.
It’s unclear what began the battle, however one other pal of Roundtree’s mentioned the mom obtained concerned after studying her daughter was a part of the melee.
“An argument, I don’t learn about what, however she was being a mother, a mama bear,” the pal mentioned.
“She solely needed to guard her child,” a relative advised the Day by day Information. “She solely went exterior to get her little one in the home, solely to search out her little one with a pack of greater than a dozen ladies on her. She tried to tug her little one away they usually all jumped her.”
Certainly one of Roundtree’s relations mentioned the brawl is perhaps linked to a web based feud her daughter was a part of.
“I believe it might have began from her daughter’s web page as a result of this was a battle coping with her daughter and considered one of her daughter’s mates,” the relative mentioned.
Within the days earlier than her dying, Roundtree additionally posted a string of posts about an unrelated dispute she was concerned in.
“Simply punched a MF with each arms on the identical time I’m not taking part in this yr,” she posted on Fb on Jan. 3, New York Day by day Information studies.
Her ultimate Fb publish on Jan. 4 learn: “B—h I’m an officer now so no I’m not preventing I’m gonna allow you to swing n pop your a– you then gonna go to jail for no less than 7 years. F–ok wit me if you wish to.”
Buddies and relations remembered Roundtree as outgoing and sort.
“She liked her youngsters, liked them to dying,” Roundtree’s aunt mentioned.
“This neighborhood was vital to her as a result of she needed totally different for all the youngsters arising. And he or she was making an attempt to make a distinction, and she or he was,” a pal remarked.
Authorities discovered the knife that was used within the stabbing on the scene however have made no arrests up to now.
