She says her daughter's alleged killer was envious. The suspect, meanwhile, is pregnant, her mother says.

The mother of a 13-year-old girl who was stabbed to death on her front porch over the weekend said Monday that the schoolmate who was arrested in her homicide had been harassing her daughter.

Police arrested Montoya Harris, 14, Saturday night on a complaint of first-degree murder in the slaying of Sydney Dailey.

Meanwhile, Harris' mother, Tykina Harris, said she learned Monday that her daughter is pregnant.

The stabbing, which occurred Saturday night at 1316 N. Boston Ave., appeared to be motivated by a dispute about a boy, Detective Vic Regalado said.

Both girls were Madison Middle School students.

Sydney's mother, Tanikka West, said Harris frequently had called her daughter and made threats about beating her up.

But West said Harris also tried to befriend her daughter and that they appeared to be getting along fine before the attack.

"My Sydney was really sweet," West said. Harris "pretended to be her friend to gain the opportunity to do what she did."

Harris went to Sydney's house Saturday night with another girl. The girls were sitting on the porch when West left to go to the store with her husband.

"They were sitting on the porch talking," she said. "The little girl who did this even spoke to myself and my husband. They were not fighting."

Sydney's two brothers, ages 15 and 17, were in the house at the time of the stabbing about 7:30 p.m. One of them heard the screeching of car tires, then looked outside and saw two girls jump into a car that then sped away.

The boys then ran outside and tried to help their sister by using towels to try to stop the bleeding.

"They said her eyes were open and she was breathing but she did not say anything," West said. "They were just holding her in their arms trying to stop the blood."

Sydney had been stabbed multiple times, police said.

The boys called 911 and called their parents, who were just blocks away.

"We pulled up right behind the ambulance," West said.

Preliminary evidence indicates that the attacker had gone to the house to confront Sydney and took a knife with her, police said.

Tykina Harris said her daughter, another girl and a 21-year-old woman were at her house in the 1300 block of North Santa Fe Avenue before the stabbing and that she was sick in bed and taking medication for an eye ailment when the three drove off without permission to Dailey's house.

"My heart dropped when I found out that little girl had died," Tykina Harris said. "Our family is praying for them (Sydney's family). Our hearts go out to them. She (Montoya Harris) wanted to tell the family that she was sorry and that she wished she could take it back. She's very hurt about what she did."

Tykina Harris said that what her daughter did was wrong and that she should have been stopped by the woman who drove the girls to Sydney's house without Harris' knowledge.

She said her daughter and the boy had been going out for about two years but that she didn't find out until their second year of dating that the two were a couple.

Before the stabbing, Sydney and Montoya Harris were friends, and the boy had broken up with Montoya and began going out with Sydney about a month ago, Tykina Harris said.

Montoya Harris had known that she was pregnant when the boy broke up with her but had not told family members, her mother said.

When she would tell her daughter to forget about the boy after the breakup, Montoya Harris would hint that there was more to the story than just a breakup, she said.

"She knew she was pregnant at the time and kept saying, 'You don't understand. You don't understand,' " Tykina Harris said.

She said the Tulsa Jail informed her Monday that her daughter is pregnant.

"I was in shock," Tykina Harris said. "My heart hurt for Sydney, but it broke anew."

West said her daughter, Sydney, didn't have a boyfriend but was well-liked and had a lot of friends.

"My daughter was very beautiful and made good grades and was a good Christian," she said. Harris "was envious and jealous of the life my daughter had, so she took it."

West said she is relying on her faith to handle the pain of her loss and that she is not harboring any anger.

"We are a Christian family, and God's will has to be done," she said. "My daughter's life has been honored. She is an angel."

West said her family belongs to Restoration Christian Center and that Sydney participated in volleyball, chorus and dance at school. She enjoyed writing poetry.

"She wrote about her family. She wrote about things she loved, flowers and wanting her family to be happy and being happy herself," she said.

West is concerned about how Sydney's death is affecting the other children in their community.

"The kids have been calling nonstop, and they have placed flowers and cards all over our porch," she said. "They have been hurting and crying, and I want them to know that it is OK to come by here and OK to call.

"It is actually helping me."

Tulsa Public Schools announced Monday that even though classes are out this week for spring break, counseling services will be offered for friends, relatives and classmates who have been affected by the stabbing.

Mental-health professionals from the school district, the Mental Health Association in Tulsa's Youth Outreach Services, and Family and Children's Services of Tulsa will be available this week to talk with anyone who has been affected by Sydney's death.

Nicole Marshall 581-8459
nicole.marshall@tulsaworld.com

Clifton Adcock 581-8367
clifton.adcock@tulsaworld.com

COUNSELING AND ASSISTANCE

Free counseling will be available from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at the Greenwood Christian Center, 1519 W. Pine St., and the Sandy Park Resource Center, 6313 W. 11th Place.

Tulsa Public Schools also plans to have crisis debriefing available when classes resume Monday after this week's spring break.

Anyone who is affected by Sydney's death also can find mental-health support through the Mental Health Association in Tulsa at 585-1213 and Family and Children's Services of Tulsa at 587-9471.

A fund has been set up to help the family with funeral expenses. Donations to the Sydney Dailey Memorial Fund can be made at the Fire Fighters Credit Union, 9200 E. 41st St.