Woman fatally stabbed while being a good samaritan

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Authorities are seeking the public’s help in finding the two people responsible for fatally stabbing a woman while simply being a good Samaritan in Baltimore, MD.

Keith and Jacquelyn Smith, along with Keith’s daughter, attended a dance party on Saturday night at the American Legion on Madison Street in Baltimore. But Keith didn’t know hours later, approximately around 12:30 am, he would be calling 911 and rushing his wife Jacquelyn to the emergency room.

54-year-old Jacquelyn Smith, an electrical engineer for the Department of Defense, would be fatally stabbed by a man when she rolled her window down to give money to a young woman begging for money, police said.

Keith said the woman appeared to be carrying a baby and held a sign reading, “Please help me feed my baby,” KUTV reported. Although Keith Smith was hesitant to open the window late at night, he said, Jacquelyn held money out from the front passenger seat because she “felt moved to give her some money.”

“And that’s when an unknown man approached the vehicle, stabbed the woman and then left the location,” Jeremy Silbert, a spokesman from the Baltimore Police Department, told CBS Baltimore.

The woman, who was holding the sign, reportedly fled the scene with the assailant. But the woman paused long enough to say something, Keith Smith said.

“This girl actually said ‘God bless you,’” after the man stabbed Jacquelyn, Keith Smith said.

Smith, who is from Baltimore and whose daughter lives on Valley Street nearby, now wants to get a law passed in his wife’s memory banning panhandling.

“Something needs to be done, because now you don’t know whether or not you’re going to give and this person’s going to take your life or they’re going to say thank you,” Keith Smith said Monday. “There are some desperate people. They don’t need help; they’re trying to hurt you.”

Authorities are still on the manhunt for the suspects. The man is described as in his 30s, 6 feet tall and with a goatee. The female suspect is Black and could be in her 20s, cops said.

A friend of Smith’s, who didn’t want to be identified, told the Post that nothing about the stabbing sounds right.

“It just don’t sound right to me. It just don’t sound right, it really doesn’t,” one friend said. “But if it did, I can see her doing that. Going in her purse and giving someone some money. Because she’s the type of person who would do that for anybody.”