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.”<\/p>\n
ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. \u2014 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.<\/p>\n
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said 45-year-old Laura Beth Blankenship entered her ex\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
Blankenship then told her ex, \u201cYou need to die. You have to die,\u201d according to the arrest report.<\/p>\n
She then threw the rock at him, reportedly causing a minor cut to his arm, before coming at him with the meat cleaver.<\/p>\n
Blankenship’s ex was able to prevent her from hitting him and take the meat cleaver away and call law enforcement, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The affidavit explains she left sometime later once law enforcement was contacted.<\/p>\n
Investigators explain Blankenship previously sent her ex multiple video messages threatening to kill him in the days before the incident.<\/p>\n
Blankenship was kicked out of the home two months before the incident and had no belongings left behind, deputies said.<\/p>\n
She is charged with attempted first-degree murder, armed burglary and threatening communication or threats of a mass shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An arrest affidavit shows a St. Pete Beach woman went to her ex’s bedroom uninvited, holding a meat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-133901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}