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Brooklyn church reels after beloved pastor fatally stabbed 15 times by son: ‘True angel on earth’

The death of a beloved Brooklyn pastor whose son is accused of stabbing her 15 times has left her church community reeling in shock. Tracey Sydnor was the executive pastor at the Upper Room Baptist Church on Rockaway Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

The death of a beloved Brooklyn pastor whose son is accused of stabbing her 15 times has left her church community reeling in shock.

Tracey Sydnor was the executive pastor at the Upper Room Baptist Church on Rockaway Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

“She was the glue that kept everything together,” Terrence Reed, a lifelong friend of 61-year-old Sydnor, told the Daily News. “Not one bad thing can be said about her.”

Sydnor was killed Saturday when her son, identified by sources as Kenji Francis, allegedly repeatedly stabbed her in her Brooklyn home on Wyona St. near Livonia Ave. in East New York about 2:10 p.m.

The death of a beloved Brooklyn pastor whose son is accused of stabbing her 15 times has left her church community reeling in shock.

“She was the glue that kept everything together,” Terrence Reed, a lifelong friend of 61-year-old Sydnor, told the Daily News. “Not one bad thing can be [...]




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