Jasmin Thompson surrendered at the 120th Precinct stationhouse with her lawyer, Mario Gallucci, who told the Daily News the woman killed, Jennira Roundtree, 43, “was beating my client’s sister and mother with a golf club.”

“And my client reacted to that,” he said. “[Roundtree] also brought down a sock filled with locks and started swinging it at people. My client’s mother has bruises on her back.”

The stunning slay happened last Tuesday evening outside the West Brighton Houses on Henderson Ave. near Broadway, where Roundtree lived.

The brawl Roundtree intervened in was sparked by a social media dispute involving her 13-year-old daughter and other girls, police sources and the victim’s family said.

Gallucci said Thompson’s 19-year-old sister was at the center of the tensions.

It exploded in deadly violence when Roundtree’s daughter was confronted by about 20 girls and young women.

Friends of the daughter ran into the building to summon her older sister for help, according to neighbors, and Roundtree was also alerted.

“The mother went outside in defense of her daughter,” a police source told the Daily News at the time. “One person approached and stabbed her.”

Roundtree was rushed by medics to Richmond University Medical Center but she could not be saved.

“This was a dispute between kids and then the adults got involved,” a police source said Monday.

The killer ran off but by Wednesday the NYPD had identified Thompson as the suspect and circulated her photo on a wanted poster.

While on the lam, the wanted woman appeared as a guest on podcast LFTG radio, where she claimed she only picked up the bloodied knife after Roundtree was stabbed.

“Look, the mom is already on the floor,” Roundtree narrated as she showed host Elliott Carterr video of the brawl. “So how are you all saying I did it?”

“I picked it up,” she added. “I’m scared for my life. I picked up y’all weapon.”

Alternatively, Gallucci said it was tragic that someone was killed but claims Thompson’s use of force was justified, given the weapons he says Roundtree was wielding. He also said cellphone video backs his client’s self-defense claim.

Despite the claim, during an arraignment in Staten Island Criminal Court Monday afternoon, prosecutors alleged Thompson fled the city and headed to an unnamed southern state after the slaying. At least seven family members including a cousin and her boyfriend showed up in court to support her.

“This defendant while armed with a sharp object stabbed the victim in the chest, causing the victim’s demise,” a prosecutor said in court.

Thompson is also charged with slashing a second victim’s arm during the melee. She was ordered held without bail and is due back in court Friday.

Roundtree was doing what any loving mother would do, a relative said on Wednesday.

“She only wanted to protect her baby,” the devastated relative told The News. ”She only went outside to get her child in the house, only to find her child with a pack of more than a dozen girls on her. She tried to pull her child away and they all jumped her.”

“I’m not sure how it started,” the relative added. “But I do know it shouldn’t have ended in murder.”

In the days before her death, Roundtree, who worked as a security guard, according to neighbors, appears to have been involved in her own social media scrum.

“Just punched a MF with both hands at the same time I’m not playing this year,” she posted on Facebook Jan. 3.

“B—h I’m an officer now so no I’m not fighting I’m gonna let you swing n pop your a– then you gonna go to jail for a minimum of 7 years,” she posted in her final Facebook message a day later, just three days before she was killed. “F–k wit me if you want to.”

The relative believes that dispute was unrelated to her daughter’s.

In addition to murder, Thompson was charged with manslaughter, assault and weapon possessions. She has prior arrests for assault, petty larceny and reckless endangerment, all in 2019, a police source said, and two assault arrests that year. Last year, she was hit with a contraband charge while behind bars, the source said.

She did not answer reporter’s questions as she was lead out of the stationhouse to appear in Staten Island Criminal Court.

The tolling program, the first of its kind in the United States, was introduced just after midnight on Sunday, and imposes a toll on drivers entering Manhattan’s busiest areas, including parts of the Financial District, Midtown, and Lower Manhattan. The additional $9 fee has long sparked controversy, but the city’s firefighters are now raising urgent concerns about its impact on emergency services.

According to Jim Brosi, president of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association, a number of New York’s bravest use their personal vehicles to drive to firehouses in need of additional personnel — but the newly imposed toll is making that financially unfeasible for many, forcing the department to rely on a fleet of just 15 vans to transport firefighters. These vehicles, typically reserved for other tasks — like picking up equipment or visiting injured members — will now be stretched thin in order to shuttle firefighters between stations, he argued.

“We move 200 firefighters a day,” Brosi said at a Sunday news conference. “The problem is we may only be dropping one firefighter off at each fire. This will slow down the time it takes to move between firehouses, meaning the firefighters waiting for relief will be on duty longer than they’re supposed to be.”

The bottleneck could result in an additional $1.8 million in estimated overtime pay, according to Brosi. The union head also stressed the possibility of delays in getting manpower to stations where they’re most needed.

The FDNY’s concerns are compounded by the need for firefighters to return to their original firehouses at the end of the day to secure equipment, change, and decontaminate — adding more strain to an already strained system.

The FDNY’s request for an exemption for those working inside the toll zone was denied. Brosi stressted they were not asking for a department-wide exemption, just a carve-out for the firefighters who are most affected.

“We didn’t ask for an entire fire department exemption,” said Brosi. “We didn’t ask for an entire civil service exemption. We asked very specifically for the people who are working in here, so they don’t retire, so that they don’t transfer out, so we don’t lose institutional knowledge.”

Brosi worries the increased costs and logistical headaches could lead to personnel issues down the line, as seasoned members of the department could transfer out or retire early as their toll bills explode.

“[Manhattan is] a very difficult place to work,” he said. “The buildings are unique. Every last one of them. The institutional knowledge required to understand the complexity of the buildings and how to properly fight fires [in the zone] is difficult.”

Despite the FDNY’s concerns, MTA Chair Janno Lieber defended the plan at a separate Sunday news conference, emphasizing the program’s intention to reduce gridlock, improve emergency response times and encourage the use of public transportation.

“Now, the good news for the core function of fire and EMS is one of the principal goals, is to make response times faster, and that’s especially important for EMS,” Lieber said. “The EMS operation, the ambulance drivers are taking people to hospital whose time to get to the hospital is going up, up, up. So that is a huge benefit, since you’re talking about fire and EMS, likewise, fire trucks.”

The new toll is expected to climb over time and will increase to $12 by 2028, and then $15 by 2031 — all aimed at funding upgrades and improvements to the city’s mass transit system.

The MTA’s promise of a smoother subway system and less congestion has done little to reassure Brosi and his colleagues, who argue the city’s long-term vision will have immediate and serious consequences for emergency services.

“We’ve had frequent discussions with the MTA, and we were denied,” the exasperated union head said. “We had made requests through the mayor’s office, and we were denied. And we tried to explain to them the very unique situation.”

Abdul Malik Little, 46, was charged with attempted murder and weapons possession for the bloody Saturday night attack at his arraignment Sunday in Manhattan Criminal Court. He was ordered held on $50,000 cash bail or $150,000 bond.

“Mr Little doesn’t fit into type of case we see in the press,” his lawyer Jackie Dombroff told Judge Janet McDonnell, asserting: “The way that the press is including this in the trend of stories of stranger attacks on the subway couldn’t be further from the truth.”

According to police, Little and the 31-year-old victim were riding on a New Haven Line train entering the transit hub about 6:50 p.m. Saturday when the younger man complained about the blaring tune.

That led to an argument, and Little allegedly whipped out a knife, stabbing the victim twice in the chest, police said.

The victim managed to get off the train and find two patrolling MTA police officers. He pointed out Little and the officers arrested him and recovered the knife, MTA officials said.

Medics took the victim to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.

On Sunday, Dombroff argued the confrontation “is not an instance of someone lashing out at an undeserving stranger.”

“He wants to clear his name,” the lawyer said at the arraignment.

It’s the second attack at Grand Central since Christmas Eve, when an unhinged man slashed two strangers in an unprovoked rampage in the subway station there.

“F–k these people!” screamed Jason Sargeant, 28, as he pulled the emergency brake on a No. 5 train entering the station, police and MTA officials said.

As he left the train, he slashed a 42-year-old man in the left wrist without warning, then after crossing through a turnstile on the mezzanine level lunged at a 26-year-old woman, punching her in the face and cutting her neck and throat, cops said. Both victims were expected to recover.

A man in a ski mask and black bubble jacket shoved the victim onto the tracks at the 1 train subway stop at W. 18th St. in Chelsea around 1:40 p.m., cops said.

Disturbing video obtained by the Daily News shows two people jump the subway turnstiles while the victim stands on the platform with his back to them, and another man in a black puffer coat walks by.

Suddenly the man in black turns around and lunges at the victim, appearing to deliberately push him onto the tracks with both hands outstretched. Seconds later the train passes by, appearing to run over the victim.

The fare beaters flee, jumping back over the turnstiles while the man in black flees down the platform. It is unclear if any of the men knew each other. The attack appears unprovoked.

”We’re still trying to piece that together,” a police source said when asked if the fare beaters had any connection to the attack.

Medics rushed the victim to Bellevue Hospital, where he was in critical but stable condition. His identity has not been released.

His attacker ran off but was caught by cops a short distance away, police said.

Police identified the attacker as Kamel Hawkins, 23, of Brooklyn. He is being charged with attempted murder and assault, cops said.

Hawkins has been arrested six times previously, including four times for felonies, according to police records. He was last arrested Oct. 19 for aggravated harassment and making threats over the phone.

It wasn’t immediately clear if the victim and his attacker knew each other or if the shove was unprovoked.

Chilling video obtained by the Daily News shows the woman standing near the door of a stopped subway car at the Coney-Island-Stillwell Ave. station, her clothes ablaze, while a man sits on a bench on the platform a few feet away and casually watches.

“Officers who were on patrol on an upper level of that station smelled and saw smoke and went to investigate. What they saw was a person standing inside the train car fully engulfed in flames,” Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said of the macabre crime. “With the help of an MTA employee and a fire extinguisher, the flames were put out. Unfortunately, it was too late, and the victim was pronounced [dead] on the scene.

“Unbeknownst to the officers who responded, the suspect had stayed on the scene and was seated on a bench on the platform, just outside the train car,” Tisch added.

Police body cameras captured crystal clear images of the man, which were then disseminated to the public. Three teenagers recognized the man from the photos and called 911, enabling NYPD and transit officers to work together to arrest him, Tisch said.

The horrifying scene was captured on disturbing video obtained by The News. “This is a person right here! Oh s–t!” a voice can be heard on the cellphone video as the woman is seen engulfed in flames while what looks like a police officer walks by and talks into a radio.

The woman’s identity was not immediately released, but sources told The News she appeared to be homeless and was sleeping in a stationary F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Ave. subway stop at about 7:30 a.m. when the suspect set her on fire.

“A person of interest is in custody. So now we’re calling upon the rest of the justice system to step up and do their jobs,” Chief of Transit Joseph Gulotta said at the Sunday press conference. “There must be strong, swift consequences on this person, and I use that term lightly, who committed this brutal, brutal homicide. There is no room in civilized society for people like him to be walking around.”

The victim and suspect did not appear to know each other and had no prior interaction before the suspect lit the woman on fire, Gulotta said.

The suspect’s identity was not immediately released, but Gulotta noted the man had immigrated to the U.S. from Guatemala in 2018.

“It’s foul. It’s wrong. Nobody deserves to get burned up, no matter if she’s homeless,” said Kenny Cruz, who was sitting outside a convenience store outside the Coney Island/Stilwell Avenue subway station in a wheelchair on Sunday. “My heart goes out to that lady.”

It’s fourth and long for Brooklyn’s Mo Better Jaguars, whose Eastern Regional Championship win secured the team of 8- and 9-year-olds a spot in the Pop Warner Super Bowl in Orlando this weekend.

But local program organizers are scrambling like a desperate quarterback to raise the money needed to send the little linebackers and linemen to Disney World for a showdown with their tiny, talented  rivals.

“How do you tell a 9-year-old who played football all season that, unfortunately, we couldn’t raise the money for you guys to continue and go on to the Pop Warner Super Bowl?” said Cheryl Wray, president of Mo Better Jaguars Football.

“I don’t know what I would say to them. I don’t know. I would crawl under a rock. If we were in the Upper East Side, if we were in Connecticut, if we were in Long Island, this would not be a thought. Somebody would just write a check — right? — and take care of the whole thing. We’re not in that. We’re servicing low-income, inner-city kids.”

After a season that has seen both the Jets and Giants mired in mediocrity, New York’s football hopes ride on the shoulder pads of fourth- and fifth-graders whose salaries are paid in pizza and Pepsi.

For them, football is a love-of-the-game activity that they squeeze in between piano lessons, Roblox and studying for a science test. So the opportunity to represent their hardscrabble Brownsville neighborhood on little league football’s biggest stage is something that they should not miss, their biggest boosters say.

“It’s a big boost for their self-esteem,” said Jaguars head coach Chris Legree. “I mean, everybody likes to feel associated with something successful, right? So when the kid walks down the street or goes to school with our jersey on or with our hoodies or jackets, they get a sense of belonging to something positive.

“We didn’t start the program to make NFL players. We go very hard with the academics. We say, if you have academics and athletics, it can open up possibilities for you to open up opportunities, right? Our ultimate goal is to produce productive members of society. You can do so many good things with sports — [learn to deal with] adversity, confidence, preparation. It’s just getting these principles in.”

Wray has two sons who played in the program.

“The oldest one went to school on a football scholarship,” she said. “They’re both college graduates. I know what this program can do for a young boy in the inner city. You know — the guidance, the direction, the structure. When I see kids able to put their phones down and get on the field and not just play football, but then play with each other. ”

Not only is the team undefeated with a 12-0 record — not one single team has even been able to score on them. As a result, the Jaguars are scheduled to play their first-round game on Saturday. But, right now, they barely have enough money to make it out of Brooklyn, organizers said.

Wray said the Florida trip costs about $1,500 per player for travel, lodging and meals, or about $47,000 in total. She said that, so far, the organization has been able to raise about $22,000.

Wray said it’s late in the fourth quarter, and the clock is ticking.

“Right now, it’s looking like we might not, like we can’t do it,” she said. “If we don’t … I could not, could not stand the thought of these kids not taking this trip. And they worked so hard. The previous fundraiser we did is what got us through thus far. We played up and down the Northeastern region. Those were overnight trips. Money went to charter buses, hotel stays.”

Wray said she wants to see the Jaguars remain undefeated — on and off the field.

“These kids earned it,” she said. “They worked hard. They’re a tough little group.”

The 43-year-old victim was walking on the Kosciuszko St. station’s J train platform when the woman randomly pushed him about 7:40 a.m. Sunday, cops said.

No train was coming at the time and the shocked victim was able to climb back onto the platform and alert a transit worker.

When cops arrived, they discovered the victim was being sought for not paying a fine after he pleaded guilty in a 2021 drunk driving case.

In that case, cops found the victim sleeping behind the wheel of a stopped car that was obstructing traffic on Kosciuszko Street in Brooklyn, according to the criminal complaint. When a police officer approached him, the victim declared: “I’m just f**ked up right now, I’ll take it upstairs. I had that beer right there, I fell asleep. I probably had like two shots of Hennessey.”

In the latest incident, medics took the man to Brookdale Hospital to be treated for a minor head injury resulting from the push onto the tracks. A judge dismissed the unpaid fine from the 2021 case.

The stranger who shoved him onto the tracks ran off and has not been caught. She’s described as a 5-foot, 4-inch tall Black woman who was wearing a gray coat.

Cops responding to a frantic 911 call about an assault around 6:10 p.m. Saturday found Kristopher Samaroo, 30, mortally wounded with blunt force trauma to his body outside his home on the Throgs Neck Expressway, near Barkley Ave in Throgs Neck.

Samaroo’s wife made the 911 call, police sources told the Daily News.

Medics took Samaroo to Jacobi Medical Center, but he couldn’t be saved.

Police on Sunday said two men had been arrested in the case. Both Omar Lamoni, 43, and Edwin Nina, 39, were charged with assault, cops said. Both men live in the area. Further information about what sparked the deadly confrontation were not immediately released.

Neighbors told The News they heard a loud argument the same day as the  killing.

“Yesterday he was fighting. I heard shouting, that’s it,” said next-door neighbor Nalmul Islam, 38.

Islam told The News he hears “regular shouting” from Samaroo’s house every two or three months, and “that’s why I showed no interest … that’s why I didn’t take interest.”

Another neighbor, an 85-year-old man who didn’t give his name, added: “I heard an argument but I mind my own business.”

“In these five months I’ve been living here, three times I heard fighting out there,” the man added.

Samaroo lived with his brother, who is the building’s tenant, Islam said.

Islam, who said he moved into the neighborhood last year, called it a quiet block where people don’t hang around outside, or open fire hydrants in the summer.

“It’s a very nice [neighborhood], he said. “The school is very nice.”

Samaroo’s killing marks the fourth homicide this year in the 45th Precinct, which saw five slayings in all of 2023, according to NYPD statistics.

Jacinto Remigio plunged from the window of his apartment on the corner of W. 161st St and Broadway in Washington Heights at about 4:40 a.m. Saturday, cops said.

“He was a very kind, giving, loving person in the community,” daughter Vilmenia Cabrera told the Daily News by phone while on her way to make funeral arrangements Monday.

Sources said Remigio may have been intoxicated at the time of the fall. Police are still trying to determine if he fell or jumped but suspect he accidentally fell to his death trying to close the window left open by the crooks.

Remigio was out walking his dog when a trio of robbers entered the apartment, one climbing through the window and then letting in the two others through the front door, police sources said.

Once inside, the home invaders encountered Remigio’s 40-year-old son, Jeury Remigio, and tied him up. The suspects stole a cell phone, $200 in cash and a pricey chain, cops said.

”I felt in fear for my life,” the younger Remigio said of the encounter. “I’m a peaceful, simple person. I didn’t have anything to do with anything like this.

”I didn’t recognize those guys. I don’t live that kind of life,” he added.

When Remigio returned to the building, the crooks were gone and his son had already called for help. Responding police asked Remigio for identification and he went into the room with the window that had been left open to get his ID, police sources said.

Cops heard a bang and looked out to see Remigio on the scaffolding beneath the window. He was rushed to a local hospital, where he died.

“Close to the holiday, to lose a parent is a tragedy,” Jeury Remigio told The News. “They took a piece of my peace.”

Remigio declined to continue talking about the incident, citing the ongoing police investigation.

”Honestly, I don’t know why it happened. I live an innocent life. I’m a health care worker. I want to give back to the community and my father was a figure in the community,” he said.

Cabrera said the Washington Heights grandfather was a hardworking man.

“It’s very misfortunate the way things happened,” said the heartbroken daughter. “He was targeted.”

Remigio owned a nearby shoe store called Jacinto Shoes, and this is the third time his apartment has been burglarized, sources said. Cops suspect people in the neighborhood believe he kept cash in the home.

Remigio’s youngest son thinks the victim, already despondent over the breakup of a two-year romantic relationship, committed suicide as a result of the home invasion.

“I believe the robbery was what caused him to commit suicide that day. He was already sad and that probably made him more sad,” Manauri de Jesus Remigio, 34, said in Spanish.

“My father was with a woman, but they had problems. He was depressed and sad from that.”

Manauri de Jesus Remigio worked with his father at the store, which opened five years ago.

“Last time I saw him was Friday and we just said we will see each other tomorrow,” said the son.

An employee at the restaurant next door to Jacinto Shoes said the victim was a lunchtime regular and had seemed down the last time she saw him, on Tuesday.

“He looked sad. It was unusual. He wasn’t eating. He kept ordering beers,” said Ana Medina, who works at La Rubia Bar and Grill. “He was there for three hours, but at times going back and forth to check on the store.”

Medina said that as Remigio drank he requested to hear a Spanish song.

“I asked him what was wrong, and he didn’t say,” she said. “He just wanted to listen to his song.”

Cops are still looking for the robbers.

According to police, a 27-year-old man was at the wheel of a red 2010 Toyota Corolla with two passengers — a man and woman, both 21 — heading west on the Cross Bronx Expressway when the driver in another car opened fire about 5:45 a.m., striking both passengers.

The driver of the Toyota wasn’t hurt. The shooter took off and has not been caught, cops said.

The wounded victims arrived at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia in Washington Heights in the shot-up car just after 6 a.m., police said.

EMS then rushed the victims to Harlem Hospital, where the male passenger — identified by police as Ivan DeJesus Bueno, of Patterson, N.J. — was pronounced dead. The female victim was in stable condition with a gunshot wound to the shoulder..

The dead man was married to the wounded woman, PIX11 reported. The driver of the Corolla was taken into police custody on suspicion of DWI, the station said.

The double-shooting was one of four slayings across four boroughs during a bloody eight-hour stretch. They include the 10:35 p.m. Saturday shooting of a 25-year-old man in the Bronx, the fatal stabbing of a Staten Island man by his housemate about 1:45 a.m. Sunday and the shooting of a man behind a Queens retail strip about 3 a.m. Sunday, cops said.