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A woman is accused of stabbing a pregnant mother in a grocery store parking lot in North Carolina and then fleeing to Florida.
Marvina Butler-Hardy faces charges of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury, and battery of an unborn child. This information was shared in a Facebook video by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. In Florida, she was also charged with driving with a suspended or revoked license and was detained on an out-of-county warrant, according to a Florida Highway Patrol arrest affidavit referenced by Oxygen.
The incident took place on March 18, when Butler-Hardy reportedly stabbed the pregnant woman once, as detailed in an incident report from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. The victim, who was helping her daughter out of the car at the time, sustained injuries that were not life-threatening, a police spokesperson informed Oxygen.
Detective Ashley Phillips stated in the Facebook video, “At this time, it appears that the victim and the suspect did not know each other and had no prior interactions.”
Following the alleged attack, Butler-Hardy drove to Flagler County, Florida. There, a highway patrol officer stopped her for having a cracked windshield. The officer recognized her silver Hyundai from a “Be on the Lookout” alert, as mentioned in the arrest affidavit.
Butler-Hardy told the officer that her driver’s license was suspended, per the affidavit, and once police verified her identity, she was arrested.
She is in custody in Florida awaiting extradition to North Carolina. She has not yet entered a plea for the charge of driving with a suspended license and has yet to appear in court, a spokesperson from the Flagler County Court told Oxygen.
Butler-Hardy has not yet entered pleas for the North Carolina charges, a court spokesperson told Oxygen.
Attorneys for Butler-Hardy in Florida and North Carolina could not be reached by Oxygen.