The woman accused of fatally stabbing a Staten Island mother who intervened in a violent brawl involving her daughter appeared on a podcast while on the run, insisting she was trying to deescalate the ongoing conflict and only picked up the knife after the stabbing.
Jasmin Thompson, 25, fled to a southern state after the Jan. 7 fracas, which left Jennira Roundtree mortally wounded after she was stabbed numerous times outside her building in the West Brighton Houses on Henderson Ave. near Broadway, prosecutors said Monday.
While on the lam, she was featured on podcast LFTG radio, where she told host Elliott Carterr she’s “not a killer.”
The altercation that Roundtree, 43, intervened in was sparked by a social media dispute involving her 13-year-old daughter and other girls, police sources and the victim’s family previously told the Daily News.
Also involved in the feud was Thompson’s cousin, whom the woman claims Roundtree’s son punched in the face a week before the confrontation, which police said involved about 20 women and girls.
“[I said] we need to speak to the parents,” Thompson said on the podcast. “Because this needs to end, because we all live in the same hood.”
But when Thompson arrived to the building to straighten out the disagreement, Roundtree and other women were swinging a golf club and a sock filled with locks, ready for a fight, according to the woman and her attorney, Mario Gallucci.
“They didn’t even talk, they just on that,” Thompson told Carterr. “She wasn’t being a mom, a real mom. I’m a mom.”
Thompson denied neighbors’ claims that a mob of 20 confronted Roundtree’s 12-year-old daughter, calling it “only like four of us and it was 20 of them.”
After Roundtree was stabbed numerous times about her body, Thompson claims she picked up the bloodied knife as she was “scared for” her life.
“Look, the mom is already on the floor,” Thompson narrated as she showed the podcast host video of the brawl. “So how are you all saying I did it?”
Thompson turned herself into the NYPD’s 120th Precinct Monday morning — six days after the fatal attack. She was charged with murder, manslaughter, assault and criminal possession of a weapon. She was held without bail following an arraignment in Staten Island Criminal Court.
