Woman stabbed to death after rolling down window to give money on street

A Maryland woman was fatally stabbed over the weekend after rolling her car window down to hand money to a person who purported to be homeless. 

Baltimore police said that Jacquelyn Smith, 52, was in a car with her family as they traveled through Baltimore on Saturday night, according to the local Fox affiliate WBFF.

{mosads}A woman wearing a brown jacket that appeared to be carrying a child and a sign that read “Please Help me feed my baby” reportedly approached the vehicle.

Smith, who was in the front passenger seat, rolled down her window and proceed to hand the woman money. 

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

The Fox affiliate reported that the man attempted to grab Smith’s wallet before pulling out a knife and stabbing her in her chest. The man reportedly fled the scene with the woman carrying the sign. 

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh warned against rolling down car windows for homeless people on the street.

“We don’t want people destroying other people’s lives,” she told CBS Baltimore. “This is unconscionable and as I’ve continued to say, one life lost in this city is one life too many.”

Friends, who asked to remain unidentified, described Smith to CBS as “a very loving, caring person.”

Detectives do not have any leads on the identities of the suspects, The Baltimore Sun reported.