Twin who survived Park Slope stabbing desperately tried to protect sister after drunken man followed, attacked them

The twin sister of a 19-year-old girl who was stabbed to death after she allegedly rejected the advances of a man outside of a Brooklyn deli has recounted how she tried to protect her sibling when the drunken man became enraged that she would not follow him back on Instagram.

Sanyia Spain and her sister Samyia had taken a break from a family game night and were walking to the Slope Natural Plus on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope around 2:20 a.m. on Sunday, when a friend pointed out that someone was following Samyia, the surviving teen told the Daily News.

“I grabbed her phone and I was like ‘Come with me, come with me,” Sanyia said.”I was like ‘Why are you talking to that boy?’ She said, ‘I don’t want to talk to that boy.’”

In an apparent effort to get the stranger off her back, Samyia decided to give him her Instagram handle, Sanyia said.

“She said she wasn’t going to follow him back,” she said.“That’s it. She said no.”At that point, she said, the man became enraged.

Samyia was stabbed in the chest and pronounced dead at New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, while her sister was stabbed in the arm and was listed in stable condition at the hospital.