Pregnant woman stabbed in Cotswold speaks after suspect arrested in Florida

CHARLOTTE — A pregnant woman stabbed outside a Cotswold grocery store says she’s feeling relieved after her accused attacker was arrested more than 450 miles away in Florida. The mother, who was injured while getting her child out of the car, said she had never met the suspect and still doesn’t know why she was targeted.

Channel 9’s Hannah Goetz spoke with the victim by phone on Tuesday, who said she’s confused about why she was targeted.

She says she has never met this woman before. She was getting her son out of the car in the Harris Teeter parking lot in the middle of the day on March 18 when the suspect attacked her.

Witnesses jumped in to help.

“We need medic pronto,” a caller said in newly released 911 recordings. “We’re at the Sharon Amity Harris Teeter.”

“Someone was just stabbed by someone,” someone told 911 dispatch. “They got out of their car and stabbed them.”

“She’s 38,” according to the 911 call logs. “And you’re pregnant? She’s pregnant.”

The suspect, Marvina Butler-Hardy, was caught on Monday in Florida.

“How are you feeling since learning that news?” Goetz asked the victim.

“(It) definitely brings relief knowing that she, I mean, isn’t out there to do it to other people, or me, again,” the victim said.

How Florida Highway Patrol arrested the accused Cotswold stabber

Last week, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department released surveillance video of a woman accused of stabbing a pregnant woman on March 18 outside the Harris Teeter in the Cotswold Village Shopping Center.

A Florida State Highway Patrol trooper was patrolling Interstate 95 on Monday in Flagler County when the Jacksonville Regional Communication Center got a “Be On The Lookout” for a silver Hyundai traveling south on I-95 from the Duval area. The vehicle was described as having a paper tag and a taped-up window and was being driven by a female.

The Highway Patrol trooper spotted a silver Hyundai being driven by a female, but didn’t see a paper tag or tape on the windows. However, the car had a very large crack on the windshield, obstructing the driver’s view. So the trooper pulled her over on I-95.

The trooper says Butler-Hardy only gave him an ID card instead of a license and when asked why, she said her license is suspended. The trooper provided the name of the woman he pulled over to another trooper who confirmed she was the suspect in the Cotswold stabbing. He then arrested her.

The trooper said upon further inspection of her vehicle, a North Carolina paper tag was found on the rear seat, and the tape which was on the window appears to have been peeled off.

Criminal history

Butler-Hardy had been arrested before for assault before, according to her criminal record in Mecklenburg County.

Other charges include probation violation, possession of a stolen firearm, larceny of a firearm, and a vehicle and more.

‘Keep her behind bars’

“I’m hoping this charge is enough to keep her behind bars, that’s for sure,” the victim said. “Yeah, I don’t know the amount of mug shots you see of this woman. You wouldn’t think that she would be on the streets.”

The mother told Goetz she was stabbed in the middle of the chest, and it hit bone, missing major organs. She says she’ll be left with a scar.

Her unborn child and the one she was getting out of the car are both OK.

Butler-Hardy is being held in the Flagler County Jail until she is extradited to Mecklenburg County.

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