Posted on 05/18/2006 10:18:38 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
(AP) CONWAY, S.C. An 18-year-old woman was stabbed to death in a middle school parking lot as students were arriving for class Thursday, and a man was arrested, police said.
Students and school employees saw the attack shortly before 8 a.m. in a lot shared by Carolina Forest Middle School and Carolina Forest High School, Horry County police said in a news release.
The victim's name was not released, and authorities would not say whether she was a student at the high school.
Edwin Lee Cornelius, 24, of Aynor, was arrested shortly after the stabbing. Police said charges were pending.
Both schools were locked down, though classes remained in session.
"People just sat in their car and waited and when you saw the ambulances, and fire trucks and police cars going on you knew something was going on," said Jill Watts, 49, who has a child at Conway High School and works at an electric company near the school.
Calls to the school rang unanswered Thursday. An administrative assistant at the Horry County school district referred all questions to police, who did not immediately return phone calls.
The woman died at Conway Medical Center, Horry County Deputy Coroner Dan Bellamy told WBTW-TV of Florence. Conway is about 15 miles from Myrtle Beach.
terrible, absolutely terrible.
I wish I had been there. You can't legally carry in a "gun free" school zone but I think sports equipment would be ok, like a Louisville Slugger.
May God have mercy on the childs soul, amen.
The article says it's a Middle School. What is an 18 year old doing there? Was she a student?
Sounds like it is a combo Middle-High School campus, to me.
Honor killing?
does not sound like a muslim.
Students and school employees saw the attack shortly before 8 a.m. in a lot shared by Carolina Forest Middle School and Carolina Forest High School
But I guess the headline writer thought that an 18-year old stabbed outside a high school just wasn't dramatic enough, hence the headline implying a junior high kid was stabbed outside of their school.
It is easier to go through the eye of a needle than to find a headline writer who isn't a dishonest piece of trash.
Trite knee-jerk response?
I'm not sure about down there, but it could have been a 7-12 school.
In one of the neighboring suburbs where I live, the middle and high schools are in the same building under the same school name.
Of course, she also could have been dropping off a sibling for school.
Or her oldest child...
At 18 years old?
Assuming the child was 12, that would have meant that she would have had to been pregnant at 6--this is an impossibility...
Could also have been a child she babysat, though. But definitely not her own child.
This could not have happened. After all, schools are a weapons-free zone for a thousand feet. No criminal should be able to make it through that invisible perimeter with a weapon.
The futility of rules prohibiting weapons for law-abiding citizens is proven daily, but still they don't get the message.
Our newspaper is as bad. It's those special English classes now days.
What is it about the middle name "Lee" down South?
Might I add this or a slightly edited version of this to my tagline catalogue?
burn any good crosses lately?
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