{"id":325806,"date":"2026-08-20T13:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325806\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T13:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:48:38","slug":"woman-stabbed-in-brooklyn-park-in-front-of-young-son-was-killed-by-spurned-suitor-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325806\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman stabbed in Brooklyn park in front of young son was killed by spurned suitor: family"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman stabbed in a Brooklyn park in front of her 7-year-old son<\/a> was killed by a spurned suitor who became obsessed after just one date, according to the victim\u2019s heartbroken mother.<\/p>\n

Shakeema Davis was stabbed multiple times inside Lincoln Terrace Park in Crown Heights during an argument with her killer about 12:40 a.m. Tuesday, cops said. Davis, 30, had gone to the park to barbecue \u2014 and her young son witnessed everything that happened next.<\/p>\n

The victim\u2019s mother, 60-year-old Adra Pegues, said the killer recently went on a first date with her daughter and then became obsessed with Davis \u2014 who wasn\u2019t interested in a second date.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice investigate the fatal stabbing inside Lincoln Terrace Park in Brooklyn Tuesday. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wasn\u2019t her type. Some people won\u2019t take no for an answer,\u201d Pegues said in an exclusive interview at her Harlem home. \u201cShe went out on a date and felt, \u2018Oh no, not that one.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have the words for him\u201d she added. \u201cHe was a coward. A weak man. People like that aren\u2019t supposed to be on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

The killer has not been caught and cops have not named a suspect or released a motive.<\/p>\n

\"ShakeemaShakeema Davis<\/p>\n

Davis had gone to the park near Eastern Parkway and Buffalo Ave. to cook some food.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe enjoyed grilling outdoors,\u201d her mom said. \u201cSo she took her little wagon and set up her little tent. She was going to grill for her son and her best friend. She usually grills steak or chicken. She likes steak grilled over charcoal.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Davis was preparing the meal, her killer suddenly showed up and confronted her.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice investigate the fatal stabbing inside Lincoln Terrace Park in Brooklyn Tuesday. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wanted to go home with her and she said no,\u201d said Pegues.<\/p>\n

A friend of Shakeema\u2019s who witnessed the slaying described their quarrel to ABC7 New York as \u201ca little argument, a minuscule argument<\/a> that didn\u2019t make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

The man then stabbed Davis multiple times, leaving her to bleed out in the arms of another friend<\/a>, who gave his name only as Freddie.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice investigate the fatal stabbing inside Lincoln Terrace Park in Brooklyn Tuesday. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

\u201cI took my shirt off and tied it around her to compress her wounds,\u201d Freddie told PIX11. \u201cI tried to save her and she took her last three breaths in my arms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Medics rushed Davis to Brookdale University Hospital<\/a>\u00a0but she could not be saved.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was a wonderful woman,\u201d her mother said. \u201cHer son is with me now. He witnessed it. He\u2019s doing as well as can be expected.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ShakeemaShakeema Davis (Courtesy of Family)<\/p>\n

The killer ran off north on Rochester Ave. and has not been caught.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want the same thing, what he did to her,\u201d Pegues said. \u201cI want that to happen to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis was a graduate of Manhattan\u2019s American Sign Language High School and worked as a home health aide. She was about to start caring for her brother, who suffers from stage-five kidney failure, her mother said.<\/p>\n

\"ShakeemaShakeema Davis (Facebook)<\/p>\n

The victim lived about a half mile from the park where she was killed.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was so sweet, so kind,\u201d said Pegues. \u201cShe liked to treat people good. I tried to instill in her that people will forget what you said, people forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s how she treated people,\u201d she added. \u201cBut you can\u2019t raise kids like that no more. The world is too cruel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman stabbed in a Brooklyn park in front of her 7-year-old son was killed by a spurned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325807,"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-325806","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\/325806","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=325806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}