Suspect in slaying of Staten Island mom appeared on local podcast hours before surrendering to police

New York’s Staten Island. Less than a day before turning herself in to the police, the 25-year-old New Brighton woman who was arraigned yesterday in relation to the fatal stabbing of Jennira Roundtreeat at the West Brighton Houses last week insisted on her innocence during a lengthy, 45-minute phone interview on a Staten Island-based podcast on Sunday.

Jasmin Thompson, who is charged with several offenses, including second-degree murder, told Elliott Carter, host of LFTG Radio, that a fight that broke out in front of 820 Henderson Ave. on the evening of January 7 and ended with Roundtree, a mother of four and granddaughter of one, being stabbed twice in the chest, was the result of a long-running feud between several parties.

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