GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Lashika Shorne Sease, 39, was arrested yesterday and charged with aggravated assault after allegedly threatening to kill a man who asked her to start paying rent.

The victim told a Gainesville Police Department officer that Sease, whose address is listed as GRACE Marketplace, has been a tenant at the residence on NE 11th Street for about three months, and when he told her she would need to start paying rent at the beginning of November, she said she didn’t have to pay anything, adding, “I’ll call the cops and tell them you beat me up and have you sent to jail.” The victim said Sease grabbed a butcher knife from the kitchen and walked towards him, yelling, “I’ll kill you.”

A witness reportedly saw Sease walking out of the kitchen holding a butcher knife and walking toward the victim. Another witness also saw Sease walking toward the victim with the knife.

Sease has three felony convictions (none violent) and two misdemeanor convictions (none violent). She has served one state prison sentence and was released in 2009. Judge Thomas Jaworski set bail at $10,000.

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