Repeat offender allegedly stabs pregnant mom in random grocery store parking lot attack 'with a steak knife'

A large ma getting her kid from her car was approached by a North Carolina repetition offender who stabbed her with a steak knife, constabulary said.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) announced the apprehension of Marvina Butler-Hardy. She is accused of stabbing a large pistillate extracurricular successful the parking batch of the Harris Teeter successful Cotswold connected March 18.

The large pistillate sustained non-life-threatening injuries and is expected to marque a afloat recovery. 

The stabbing appeared to beryllium a random act, with detectives saying the unfortunate and fishy did not cognize each different and had nary erstwhile interactions. 

Marvina Butler-Hardy, who was released from situation successful April 2025, allegedly attacked the 38-year-old unfortunate with a steak weapon extracurricular a Harris Teeter successful Charlotte, North Carolina. (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department)

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Authorities allege that Butler approached the pistillate unfortunate astatine the fashionable market concatenation astatine astir 11:30 a.m.

The 38-year-old large pistillate told WSOC-TV she was getting her toddler retired of her car erstwhile the pistillate who pulled retired of the abstraction down her stopped her car, got out, cursed astatine her, and attacked her with a knife.

"I was facing my toddler, getting him retired of his seat, and thankfully turned around, and she was coming astatine maine with a steak knife," the victim, who asked not to beryllium identified, told the section outlet.

"I pushed and kicked and screamed, and thankfully I deliberation that frightened her off," she said.

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The unfortunate was stabbed successful the sternum, but she and her unborn kid are OK, WSOC-TV reported.

Marvina Butler-Hardy, who was released from situation successful April 2025, allegedly attacked the 38-year-old unfortunate with a steak weapon extracurricular a Harris Teeter successful Charlotte, North Carolina. (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department)

Following the seemingly random attack, CMPD released surveillance video of the suspect, aboriginal identified arsenic Butler, and a "Be On The Lookout" for her vehicle.

On Monday, a Florida State Highway Patrol trooper spotted a metallic Hyundai traveling southbound connected I-95.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department requested assistance locating the suspect's car – a metallic Hyundai.  (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department)

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The trooper pulled Butler implicit connected I-95 and she gave him an ID paper alternatively of a licence and erstwhile asked why, she said her licence was suspended, WSOC-TV reported. The trooper provided the sanction of the pistillate helium pulled implicit to different trooper who confirmed she was the fishy successful the Cotswold stabbing.

Butler was arrested connected charges including aggravated battle with a deadly limb and artillery connected an unborn child. She is being held successful the Flagler County Jail until she is extradited to Mecklenburg County.

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Repeat offender Marvina Butler-Hardy, accused of stabbing a large pistillate extracurricular a Charlotte market store, was arrested by a Florida trooper connected I-95 aft a multistate search. (Flagler County Jail)

According to apprehension records reviewed by Fox News Digital, Butler has a lengthy transgression history.

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Records amusement she has 9 anterior convictions — six felonies and 3 misdemeanors — mostly tied to theft-related offenses, on with much caller felony convictions for firearm possession and misconduct portion successful custody.

She was astir precocious released from situation successful April 2025 and completed post-release supervision successful January 2026.