'Like a horror film': Pregnant mom walking in grocery store parking lot with toddler stabbed by woman in broad daylight after having 'no prior interactions' with her, police say

A large North Carolina ma walking successful a market store parking batch with her 3-year-old child was randomly attacked by a pistillate successful wide daylight, who plunged a weapon into the parent aft having "no anterior interactions" with her, constabulary say.

"The unfortunate and the fishy did not cognize each other," Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Detective Ashley Phillips said successful a Facebook video explaining what happened erstwhile Marvina Butler-Hardy allegedly attacked the woman.

The stabbing onslaught unfolded astatine a Harris Teeter market store successful Charlotte connected March 18, with officers responding that greeting soon earlier 11:30 a.m. to find the pregnant victim suffering from non-life-threatening injuries. "When they arrived, the unfortunate stated that she had been stabbed," Phillips said.

Police allege that the unfortunate was walking successful the Harris Teeter parking batch with her 3-year-old kid erstwhile Butler-Hardy — who is facing charges of battle with a deadly limb with intent to termination oregon inflict superior wounded and artillery of an unborn kid — acceptable upon her.

"The magnitude of bull cars and past proceeding my coworkers speech astir it, that truly took maine aback," said Sarah Click, a pistillate who works successful the Cotswold Shopping Center wherever the Harris Teeter is located.

"I had nary thought thing similar that would hap up present astatine all," Click told section CBS affiliate WBTV. "The contiguous happening that I thought of was idiosyncratic conscionable coming astatine you similar this — similar a fearfulness film."

Butler-Hardy allegedly fled successful a Hyundai Elantra from the country and drove to Florida, wherever she was pulled implicit for a breached windshield connected Monday morning. State troopers spotted a ample ace successful the model and pulled her implicit extracurricular of Jacksonville connected a probable origin postulation stop, according to her arrest report.

Butler-Hardy allegedly handed the trooper who walked up to talk with her a North Carolina recognition paper alternatively of a driver's license. A "be connected the lookout" alert had been enactment retired for a metallic Hyundai with a statement matching the car Butler-Hardy was driving and listing her arsenic a fishy successful the Charlotte stabbing.

"I asked Marvina wherefore she had an ID paper lone and she advised that her driving licence is suspended," the trooper wrote successful the apprehension report. "Due to machine issues I was having arsenic good arsenic vigor issues, I was incapable to corroborate if the operator was the [stabbing] suspect."

Another trooper arrived astatine the country and ran Butler-Hardy's sanction successful the system, recovered the warrant enactment retired for the stabbing, and confirmed she was wanted retired of Mecklenburg County.

"Marvina was secured instantly successful handcuffs and placed astatine the beforehand of my patrol vehicle," the arresting trooper said. "After further reflection of Marvina's vehicle, I did observe the insubstantial tag retired of North Carolina laying level supra the rear spot and it did look determination was portion connected the rear model but was peeled off."

Butler-Hardy is presently awaiting extradition from Florida to North Carolina. Police accidental she volition beryllium brought backmost to Mecklenburg County to look charges. She does not person a tribunal day acceptable yet.