A 29-year-old mother was stabbed to death by a woman at a Bronx bodega on Thursday during a broad daylight feud, police and witnesses said.
Gwendolyn Guyton was inside Jose Mini Market Inc. at Southern Boulevard and East 149th Street when a rival burst in, fought with her and then stabbed her neck and torso several times around 3:15 p.m., according to police and witnesses.
A bodega worker tried hopelessly to stop the bloodshed.
“I was trying to save the girl and at the same time get her out of the store before she got stabbed,” said Alex, who works at the Longwood deli.
“I tried to get them out when they were fighting, when they were fist fighting. But when I saw the knife, I tried to help the victim.”
Alex and a colleague held Guyton’s injured body as they waited for medics to arrive.
Witness Mario Marrero came across the eerie scene outside the store.
“She was in front of the store,” Marrero said. “She was just lying there, covered in blood. It was all over her body.”
Guyton was rushed to Lincoln Medical Center but could not be saved.
Her female killer fled the store on a white bicycle and has yet to be caught, police said.
Local resident Shelby Miller said Guyton often shopped at the bodega for cigarettes and is survived by a son.
“She didn’t deserve that,” Miller said. “No matter what she did, no one deserves to be killed like this.”
