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Woman dies after being stabbed in Uptown

CHARLOTTE — A 32-year-old woman has been arrested and charged with stabbing another woman to death Monday in Uptown, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said.

Officers were called to North Tryon Street by West Eighth Street at around 6 a.m. and found Susan Annette Dillehay, 46, who had been stabbed.

MEDIC took Dillehay to a hospital where she died.

CMPD charged Jessica Lashay Robinson with murder. She is in the custody of the sheriff’s office.

CMPD blocked off all lanes heading on North Tryon Street between 7th and 8th for about 20 minutes. The main Uptown street reopened by 7:15 a.m.

The investigation is ongoing.


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