A Virginia man is in custody in a Monday morning stabbing and extradition proceedings have begun, according to the Halifax County Sheriff's Office.
The female victim, who was stabbed multiple times, is in stable condition, Lieutenant Bobby Martin said, and investigators are still trying to tie down details of what happened. “I'm hoping after the stuff we go through today (to have more details). Right now we're still piecing things together.”
Lieutenant George Evans of the sheriff's office, who sent out the initial press release on the stabbing early Monday morning told rrspin.com later Monday evening the stabbing occurred in a cul de sac in the Edgewater subdivision sometime after midnight. The woman was stabbed several times, allegedly by Timothy I. Moran, who lives in Virginia but has ties to the area.
Evans said the current thinking is the stabbing probably occurred outside the car although that has not pinned down. He said the sheriff's office receives several nuisance calls about parking in that area, “for prostitution, drugs, things like that.”
Martin said Moran and the victim knew each other but as of right now could not confirm if the relationship was that of boyfriend and girlfriend.
WRAL reported Monday night that investigators say the woman was stabbed multiple times and left for dead but managed to crawl several hundred yards to a nearby home, where Michael Philpot lives. "I heard a pounding on the door ... and I looked out and didn't see anybody.”
Philpot told WRAL he thought someone was breaking in, so his wife called 911.
"Then I heard a girl crying, 'Please help me! Please help me!' and I opened the door and she was laying on my front porch, flat and a whole pool of blood. Her whole body was covered in blood," Philpot said. "She said, 'Please give me a blanket. I'm cold. I don't want to die. I don't want to die.'"
While wrapping her in blankets, Philpot asked who stabbed her and she gave him a man's name, he said.
Moran was later arrested in Greensville County, Virginia, across the state line from Halifax County.
"I just can’t believe she crawled as far as she did. It’s amazing, the will to live," Philpot said.
