{"id":203699,"date":"2026-04-20T19:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203699\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T19:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:31:08","slug":"dad-wants-answers-after-son-38-stabbed-to-death-by-woman-on-brooklyn-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203699\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad wants answers after son, 38, stabbed to death by woman on Brooklyn street"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman who stabbed a man to death during a fight on a Brooklyn street<\/a> last week should have hung around to explain herself, the victim\u2019s distraught father says.<\/p>\n

Instead, the woman who plunged a knife into Terrence Smith\u2019s abdomen fled the Crown Heights scene and left him to die, police said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really just want to know why,\u201d the victim\u2019s father, Terrence Rivers, told the Daily News. \u201cJust tell me why. Tell me what happened. I wish she would have just stayed there with him. Like, \u2018Oh I made a mistake, I shouldn\u2019t have done that.\u2019 Not run, just stayed there with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy son was very respectful,\u201d the father said. \u201cHe was excited. He enjoyed life. I still don\u2019t believe he\u2019s gone myself, to be honest with you. I can\u2019t say nothing bad about my son. That\u2019s my only son. That was my only boy. He\u2019s got five sisters. He was the oldest.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TerrenceTerrence Smith, 38, was fatally stabbed on April 14 on Eastern Parkway near Utica Ave. in Brooklyn. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

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,<\/p>\n

Medics rushed Smith to Kings County Hospital<\/a>, where he died.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy son danced and loved to have fun,\u201d the father said. \u201cHe was family oriented as well. He\u2019s loved \u2014 I can tell you that much.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"AA memorial outside victim Terrence Smith’s home in Brownsville, Brooklyn. (Rebecca White \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Rivers last spoke to his son a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told me he was working and he was getting his life right,\u201d Rivers said. \u201cHe told me he was happy he had a job. He never told me what job it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he is not handling his son\u2019s death very well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still think it\u2019s a dream,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t believe it. I just turned 60 March 31st, so this is a hell of a birthday gift for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smith\u2019s slaying was the second homicide in the 71st Precinct this year. The precinct had seen one murder by this time last year.<\/p>\n

Citywide, murders are down to historic lows<\/a>, with 69 victims through Sunday compared to 93 slayings during the same timeframe last year, a 26% drop.<\/p>\n

With Rebecca White<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who stabbed a man to death during a fight on a Brooklyn street last week should…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-203699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}