FLORENCE — An elderly man and woman are being treated at an area hospital after they were apparently stabbed in their Wenonah Drive home Tuesday evening.
Police on the scene said they received a call that two people were injured at the home about 7 p.m.
Florence Police Maj. Carlos Raines said investigators were still processing the scene and had few details Tuesday.
Raines confirmed that a man and woman were apparently stabbed, but said he could not release their names yet. He also said police had identified a person of interest whom they were trying to locate to interview, but declined to elaborate.
The victims’ next door neighbors said they were watching television when they heard a person moaning. They walked outside and saw their elderly neighbor in the road, bleeding and begging for help.
Eric Johnson, whose mother-in-law lives across the street from the victims, said he was pulling up at her house when he saw the male victim in the road.
“I had just pulled up into the yard and was walking up to the porch when he came out yelling for help,” Johnson said. “I saw him in the road, and a girl coming out of the house. It looked like the girl dropped two knives at the door. Then she pushed her little boy in her car, got in and drove away.
“I went over there and he was pointing to the house and kept saying his wife was in there. I went in the house,” Johnson said. “There was blood all over the floor. His wife came out of the bathroom, bleeding and asking for help.”
Johnson said the woman was conscious and talking when he found her.
“She was asking for her husband,” he said.
Johnson said he and other neighbors tried to help the couple the best they could until emergency medical personnel arrived.
“I never thought I’d ever see anything like this,” another neighbor who declined to be identified said. “I mean, this is Wenonah Drive.”
Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the police department at (843) 676-8800 or the state Crime Stoppers hotline at (888) CRIME SC (274-6372). Callers need not reveal their identities.
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