By Associated Press - Thursday, March 23, 2017

GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (AP) - A woman has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of a man in Goose Creek earlier this week.

Local media outlets reported that 27-year-old Erica Jean Walters of Goose Creek was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon and has been charged with murder.

Officers were called to an apartment Tuesday and found 53-year-old Chicoba Crabtree. He was taken to Trident Medical Center in North Charleston where he died.

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Walters was taken to the Medical University of South Carolina Hospital in Charleston for a medical evaluation. She was then taken to the Berkeley County jail. It was not known if she has an attorney.

A neighbor told police he heard Walters and Crabtree arguing before the stabbing.

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