Deaf woman fatally stabbed by relative in Brooklyn was ‘an angel’, neighbor says

An aged deaf pistillate who was fatally stabbed wrong her Brooklyn flat by a comparative who besides slashed her lad was “an angel,” heartbroken neighbors told the Daily News.

Cops responding to a 911 telephone astir 9:30 a.m. Friday recovered Malka Semenduyeva, 72, and a 47-year-old son who lived with her, some stabbed aggregate times successful their flat connected Bedford Ave. adjacent Avenue U successful Sheepshead Bay.

Medics rushed some victims to Coney Island Hospital, wherever Semenduyeva died, constabulary said. Her lad is expected to survive.

The attacker was a relative, according to police.

Semenduyeva’s neighbors told The News they believed the attacker was different big lad who besides lived with Semenduyeva.

At a memorial successful the gathering lobby connected Saturday, neighbors, friends and household members shared their reflections of Semenduyeva, who was deaf, arsenic NYPD transgression country investigators walked successful and out.

“I mean, too being the astir kindest, beloved neighbor, she was a mother, she was a sister, she was an aunt,” said Emilia Loginova, 38, who lived connected the aforesaid level arsenic Semenduyeva and said her household grew adjacent to the victim.

“She conscionable had the astir beauteous energy. She was ever smiling, ever happy, like, ever grateful to spot people, ever remembered everyone,” Loginova said. “And just, you know, the mode she passed, [she] was not deserving [of that].”

“The mode it happened,.. we haven’t been capable to sleep,” Loginova lamented. “We’re each like, conscionable devastated, crying, conscionable anxious astir it. She was 1 of the astir kindest women that I’ve ever met. She was an angel, not a atrocious bony successful her body, not adjacent a atrocious thought. She couldn’t communicate, but she could work my lips, I could work her lips, truthful you conscionable felt her energy. She was a beautiful, beauteous soul. And I deliberation we conscionable mislaid an angel.”

Another neighbour said Semenduyeva had inspired her to larn motion language.

“She was truthful nice, and she was benignant of the crushed wherefore I was learning motion language, origin I lone knew ‘Thank you’,” said neighbour Selicia Smith, 41. “Sometimes I would spot her and beryllium similar ‘Where you going?’ And she’s like, ‘home.’ You know, we’ll speech to each other. So she was 1 of the reasons wherefore I was learning motion language.”

Smith said Semenduyeva’s 47-year-old lad would often construe for his mother. “The different lad would archer maine what she’s saying. He was nice,” Smith said.

But different member was a antithetic story, according to Smith. “If I get successful present and he’s waiting for the elevator, I ne'er spell in. I’m terrified of that man. I’m not lying,” Smith said.

Loginova said she would besides debar the different brother. “I wouldn’t adjacent spell connected the elevator” if helium was successful there, she said.

Multiple neighbors described proceeding predominant large arguments and screaming coming from Semenduyeva’s apartment. Neighbors reported calling 911 galore times, but said thing ever came retired of their predominant calls.

Neighbors said they judge the 2nd member had a “heavy cause problem” that whitethorn person exacerbated the fights neighbors heard coming from the apartment.

“He’s ever been drugs, and similar astatine 1 point, I retrieve adjacent yesterday, the time earlier yesterday, seeing him extracurricular and seeing those eyes, similar you knew that determination was demonic authorities successful him astatine that point,” Loginova said.

Longtime residents of the gathering said Semenduyeva — who lived determination for 20 years, according to the superintendent — would intervene erstwhile the fights betwixt the sons got violent. Neighbors speculated Semenduyeva whitethorn person been trying to intervene successful a combat betwixt the sons erstwhile she died.

“No 1 deserves that, due to the fact that she loves her son, she loved some of them,” Loginova said.