Myrtle Beach police investigating assault with butcher knife at Carolina Oaks

Myrtle Beach police are investigating a reported assault Saturday night at Carolina Oaks apartments where a woman told police a suspect threatened to kill her with a butcher knife.

Police responded to the apartment complex at 200 Cedar St. around 6:25 p.m.

The victim told police two suspects, identified in reports as 22-year-old Laqueta Enaj Harrell and 25-year-old Winter Shavano Harts, followed her in a black Chevy Avalanche truck to Carolina Breeze apartments at 100 Cedar St. Once there, the victim said the suspects pulled up beside her car, tried to box her in and started making verbal threats that they were going to kill her, according to an incident report.

The victim told police she was able to back her car out and leave the scene, but the offenders followed her, driving recklessly as if they were “going to ram” the back of her car. At Carolina Oaks, the victim told police that one of the suspects jumped out of the Avalanche “and approached her with a butcher knife in her hand. … The victim stated that the passenger of the Avalanche was waving the knife in her direction and shouting obscenities. The victim stated that she is pregnant and was in fear for her life,” according to the report.

The victim told police she has had prior run-ins with the suspects over the last few months regarding an incident with another man. She said that she was afraid she would have been stabbed to death if she had not rolled her window up, according to the report.

Witnesses at the scene corroborated the encounter in separate reports to police, telling police the suspects left the scene before officers arrived.

No arrests had been made in the case by 6 p.m. Sunday.

This story was originally published December 27, 2015 at 6:12 PM with the headline "Myrtle Beach police investigating assault with butcher knife at Carolina Oaks."