An arrest affidavit shows a St. Pete Beach woman went to her ex’s bedroom uninvited, holding a meat cleaver and a large cement rock saying, “you need to die.”
ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. — A St. Pete Beach woman is facing charges after an arrest affidavit says she entered her ex-boyfriend’s home and threatened him with a meat cleaver and a large cement rock.
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said 45-year-old Laura Beth Blankenship entered her ex’s home Monday uninvited through an unlocked door, went to his bedroom holding a meat cleaver in one hand and a large cement rock in the other.
Blankenship then told her ex, “You need to die. You have to die,” according to the arrest report.
She then threw the rock at him, reportedly causing a minor cut to his arm, before coming at him with the meat cleaver.
Blankenship’s ex was able to prevent her from hitting him and take the meat cleaver away and call law enforcement, officials said.
The affidavit explains she left sometime later once law enforcement was contacted.
Investigators explain Blankenship previously sent her ex multiple video messages threatening to kill him in the days before the incident.
Blankenship was kicked out of the home two months before the incident and had no belongings left behind, deputies said.
She is charged with attempted first-degree murder, armed burglary and threatening communication or threats of a mass shooting.