A tragic incident unfolded in a Bronx bodega as a 29-year-old mother, Gwendolyn Guyton, was fatally stabbed by another woman during a daylight altercation on Thursday, according to police and witnesses.
Guyton was inside Jose Mini Market Inc. on Southern Boulevard and East 149th Street when the assailant entered, engaged in a fight, and viciously stabbed her multiple times in the neck and torso around 3:15 p.m., as reported by witnesses and authorities.
Despite efforts by a bodega worker to intervene, the violence could not be stopped.
“I was trying to save the girl and at the same time to get her out of the store before she got stabbed,” said Alex, an employee at the Longwood deli.
“I was trying to get them out when they were fighting, when they were fistfighting. But when I saw the knife, I was trying to help…the victim.”
Alex and a coworker held Guyton’s injured body while waiting for emergency responders to arrive.
Witness Mario Marrero came across the horrific scene outside the store.
“She was lying down in front of the store,” Marrero recounted. “She was just lying down, just full of blood. It was all over her body.”
Despite efforts, Guyton succumbed to her injuries after being rushed to Lincoln Medical Center.
The female perpetrator fled the scene on a white bike and remains at large, according to authorities.
Local resident Shelby Miller shared that Guyton was a regular customer at the bodega and leaves behind a son.
“She didn’t deserve that,” Miller expressed. “Whatever she done, nobody deserves to be killed like that.”
