HAMLET — A woman is facing a misdemeanor charge after allegedly stabbing a man with a pair of scissors following an argument when she was reportedly choked.
According to a police report, a Hamlet Police officer responded a report of a stabbing on Ridge Drive around 2:47 Thursday morning when he found 18-year-old Rayne Williams standing in the Tall Pines Apartments parking lot holding a pair of scissors.
Williams reportedly told the officer that she had stabbed 25-year-old Tyrell McRae and handed the officer the scissors.
The officer said he placed Williams in handcuffs and went inside the residence to check on the victim who said Williams had stabbed him.
After being placed in the patrol car, Williams told the officer that she and McRae were in bed when they got into an argument and McRae grabbed her by the back of the neck and pushed her down into the bed where she couldn’t breathe, according to the report.
Williams reportedly told the officer that she then accidentally knocked his glasses off the nightstand and broke them. She said McRae then grabbed her by the throat and began choking her.
She said she begged him to let her go and he then put her in a choke-hold, according to the report. That’s when she grabbed the scissors and stabbed him.
The scissors were collected as evidence and Williams was taken to the Richmond County Magistrate’s office and charged with a misdemeanor count of assault with a deadly weapon. The officer reported that she was also served a criminal summons for harassing communications.
Williams was processed and booked into the Richmond County Jail without bond, however she was released later that night. She is scheduled to appear in court June 3 on the assault charge.
Online court records show McRae has a pending assault on a female charge from the same arresting officer, as well as pending felony charges of uttering a forged instrument and obtaining property by false pretenses, and is scheduled to appear in court the same day as Williams.
State records show neither has any prior convictions.
All defendants facing criminal charges is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
