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.
T'ain't necessarily so.
Lol, smart lady.
Hi you old Jarhead you.
Lol, Slings. Very good, very good.
Of course the girl that was beaten isn't important. We rail against the way that women are treated in other countries and here in the United States we allow, yes, allow women to be beaten, raped, abused and dishonored daily from the time that they are small up until they are put into the grave.
It isn't anything new and it is something that crosses all socio-economic lines. It happens as much up North and out West as it does down South. It is a problem that we refuse to do anything about because we don't believe that people in our country do this.
Rape and abuse (physical and mental)of women is the least reported crime because it is the crime that is least likely to have a thing done about it. It is usually a "he said, she said" crime and traditionally it is ALWAYs the man that is believed.
Probably not now a days. But still, the exception proves the rule.
Thank you very much. It's actually a rewrite of a Terry Pratchett joke, but with a straight line like that...
It was to good to resist!
i was there, she was stabbed over 40 times, and on her way to the hospital she died. The man who killed her apperently tried to kill his mother too, but was unsuccesful. She shuldnt have been going out with someone 6 years older than her. The middle school was riht beside the high school, but there was seperatin, it was an outside campus, meaning 6th rade was in A building, 7th grade in B building, and so on. But middle school was 6-8 grade, and high was 9-12.
oh and one more thing, Carolina Forest middle/high school is in Myrtle Beach, not conway, trust me i went there.
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