Stabbing at Myrtle Beach hotel stemmed from an argument over rent, report says

An argument over rent money led to a stabbing involving three people at a hotel in Myrtle Beach Monday morning, according to a police report.

Myrtle Beach Police officers responded to the Quail Inn and Suites at 1004 S. Ocean Blvd. in reference to a stabbing. Two people were injured with one being taken to the hospital.

According to the report, officers discovered two people engaged in a “verbal argument” about overdue rent money. One person then became angry and stabbed the other person in the room, “causing multiple lacerations” to his legs.

The man accused of stabbing then turned to the person he had argued with and began stabbing her before he was stopped by the first victim, who took the knife and discarded it on the first floor of the hotel.

Officers arrived on the scene where they detained one person and found a pocket knife on him.

This is the second stabbing in a week at a Myrtle Beach business.

Last week, police charged Gary Everett Arnold Jr., 37, of Coventry, Rhode Island, in a stabbing that occurred Wednesday at a city laundromat.

Officers responded at 10:10 p.m. to a business in the 1100 block of 3rd Ave. South in reference to a reported stabbing, according to a Myrtle Beach Police Facebook post. It appears that it occurred at the Lane Mega Laundry, 1109 3rd Ave. S, according to a text from Myrtle Beach Police spokesperson Randolph Angotti.