Chaos erupted at the funeral of Jennira “Dandi” Roundtree, the Staten Island mother fatally stabbed while trying to protect her teenaged daughter from a violent brawl. The somber service, meant to honor the 43-year-old mother of four, was marred by multiple altercations, prompting police assigned to the Far Rockaway, Queens church to step in. “In all my years, I have never seen a funeral like this,” said the funeral director, who had presided over countless services. Roundtree was killed Jan. 7 outside the West Brighton Houses on Henderson Ave. near Broadway, where the 43-year-old mother of four lived after a deadly confrontation sparked by a social media dispute between the victim’s 13-year-old daughter and other girls, which escalated into a violent clash involving over 20 women and girls. “This is one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen and the most horrible things we’ve experienced in our neighborhood,” said Pastor David Videl of Staten Island. “I know the kids well for a long time, from summer camps, after-school clubs.” Videl’s voice grew heavy with emotion as he recalled Roundtree’s final maternal act. “The Bible says no one has any greater love than somebody would lay down their life for their daughter, for their sons, for their daughters’ friends,” he said to Roundtree’s grief-stricken children. “Your mom stood up and went into the middle of a pack of wolves. Into a pack of wolves she put her body between them and her daughter, her son. She laid down her life to protect her children.” FacebookJennira Roundtree was fatally stabbed outside the West Brighton Houses on Jan. 7. (Facebook) Shortly before Roundtree died at Richmond University Medical Center, friends of her daughter ran into her building to tell the doomed mother her 13-year-old daughter was surrounded by an angry mob. When Roundtree rushed downstairs and stepped in, one of the young women —identified as Jasmin Thompson — plunged a blade into her chest. “She only wanted to protect her baby,” a relative of Jennira’s said in the days following her death. “She 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.” Thompson, 25, fled the scene and later turned herself in to face murder charges, claiming she acted in self-defense. The wanted woman brazenly appeared as a guest on podcast LFTG radio, where she claimed she only picked up the bloodied knife after Roundtree was stabbed. Her lawyer, Mario Gallucci, argued that Roundtree had attacked his client’s family with a golf club and a sock filled with locks before Thompson picked up a knife to protect herself. Thompson has since been charged with murder, manslaughter, assault, and criminal possession of a weapon. Barry Williams/ New York Daily NewsNYPD detectives walk Roundtree’s accused killer Jasmin Thompson, 25, from the 120th Precinct on Jan. 13. (Barry Williams/ New York Daily News) As tensions flared at her funeral, eulogizer Dr. Regina Williams described how Roundtree transformed ordinary moments with her children into now cherished memories,. “Her children were her world. The treasure of her heart and the inspiration for everything she did,” Williams said. “Her love for them knew no bounds, and her legacy of unconditional love, kindness, and resilience will forever be imprinted on their lives.” Just as the eulogy ended, a fight broke out outside the church, forcing police to rush out and break up the fracas. Towards the end of the service, another altercation erupted in the pews, prompting yet another round of intervention by cops. “We want to do the right thing by them, and we want to move with extra compassion, because this is a lot on them, and you don’t know what they’re going through,” said Reverend Evan D. Gray, Sr.. “You can only assume, until you have lost your mother.” Despite the reverend’s appeal for calm, a third fight broke out as the service concluded, forcing police to clear the church. “These are some hurting children,” Gray said. “I need everybody to give them a moment. If you ain’t never been in this position, you will not understand. If you don’t know what it’s like to lose your mother, you don’t understand.” Throughout the service, Jennira’s young teenage son stood near her open casket adourned with photos of her children and family, his face etched with grief as he silently wept. He was not involved in the fights. One family member, who asked to remain anonymous, shared her disbelief over the violence that had transpired at the funeral. “I don’t even know. That’s what’s crazy,” she said, shaking her head. “This wasn’t her. She wouldn’t want this. She would want peace.”