MIAMI — A Houston woman is facing an attempted murder charge in South Florida after authorities accused her of stabbing another woman at a Miami gas station and then bragging about it and taunting the victim in social media posts and livestreams.
Police said they arrested Shakia Travon Jenkins, 29, on Friday.
Detectives with the Miami Police Department said the stabbing happened July 15 at the 7-Eleven at 690 NW 79th St. in the Liberty City neighborhood, but it all stemmed from an argument earlier that night at a lounge in North Miami Beach.
Police said the Miami-born Jenkins used to be friends with the victim after meeting through social media, but their friendship ended in 2024 after a spat at a Valentine’s Day party.
According to an arrest report, the two encountered each other at Uncut Miami at 337 NW 170th St., argued to the point where they were kicked out of the nightclub, and then agreed to meet at the 7-Eleven to fight.
Authorities said the two arrived at the gas station at around 2:30 a.m. and began fighting. Police said the woman noticed a “sharp object” puncturing her face and exclaimed, “She’s stabbing me!”
Police said the victim drove to the nearby Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Northside District station seeking help.
The report states that the woman showed MDSO detectives a video of the incident and an Instagram Live video of Jenkins boasting about stabbing her.
“Stabbed that ho and then, stabbed that ho and then,” police said she’s heard proclaiming. “OK, so who else wants ― you want to get stabbed next, b----?"
They said she then said, “Call me Chucky and Michael Myers ho” twice.
“I have to go to the airport in a minute,” Jenkins later said on the livestream, according to the report. “I ain’t from Florida.”
During an interview later that morning, police said the victim showed an ongoing Facebook Live stream in which Jenkins continued to brag about the crime.
“B----, I ain’t sorry, b----. At all,” she said, according to police. “I’ll do it again.”
The report states that Jenkins then told her audience that she wished she killed the victim.
“I would have been happy, smiling on my mugshot knowing hoe you good and dead and not coming back,” she said, according to the report.
Police said she taunted the victim further.
“Your kids would have been on the news crying, ho,” authorities said Jenkins proclaimed. “They would have been setting up a GoFundMe. I would’ve (been) happy because guess what? I would have accomplished.”
Police said she then made a series of Facebook posts saying she “just boarded (her) flight” and, after saying she landed back in Houston, “Damn, I wish it was a little sharper,” accompanied by a sad and praying emoji.
They said she then changed her profile picture to a photo of a McDonald’s worker arrested in Michigan for allegedly stabbing her manager to death, later saying in a TikTok video that she should have dressed as the suspect.
Authorities said in the videos, she also said, ”I’m mad, I don’t even have an appetite. I thought that hoe was going to be the appetizer. I wish that hoe would’ve died for real," adding that she should have “finished” her off and told the victim that she was “really going to kill” her.
It appears Jenkins made her way back to her native South Florida at some point ― and she’ll likely be staying for a while.
Police said detectives arrested her at Miami International Airport as she was waiting to board a flight back to Houston.
Besides the attempted first-degree murder charge, she faces charges of written threats to kill or do bodily injury and felon in possession of a weapon, owing to the fact that police said she’s been convicted of grand theft in Florida and fraud in Texas.
As of Monday morning, she was being held without bond in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
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