Nydira Smith testified Tuesday that she feared for her life, and her brother's, when she wielded a knife during a brawl at the university in February 2022.
Nydira Smith is on trial for first- and third-degree murder, as well as aggravated assault, for a February 2022 stabbing on Lincoln Unversity's campus that left one student dead and two others wounded.Nydira Smith told jurors Tuesday in West Chester that she was fearing for her life, and her brother’s, when she swung a steak knife wildly during a melee last year at Lincoln University, fatally stabbing one student and wounding two others.
“It was a somber moment,” she said. “I didn’t know that had taken place. I never wanted it to result in that.” Smith declined to go to the police, she said, until she had hired a lawyer, and rented a hotel room in Plymouth Meeting. She said she did so because she had seen police officers outside her apartment in the city and said she wanted to “sleep comfortably.”Smith said she traveled to Lincoln University on the night of Evans’ death after receiving a call from her younger brother, Malik Stevens, a senior there studying criminal justice.
Smith testified that she brought the knife with her when she picked up her brother because it was something she often carried to protect herself. She had done so, she said, ever since she was robbed and assaulted by a group of armed men in Philadelphia in 1998.On her way to the campus, she called the school’s security office to explain what had happened to her brother. She did not call police, she said, despite knowing about the threat of the gun.
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