Memphis Woman Arrested For Stabbing Fellow Family Dollar Shopper

BRECKENRIDGE HILLS, MO — A Memphis woman fatally stabbed another customer at a north St. Louis County Family Dollar Tuesday with knives she took from the store's shelves, the Post-Dispatch reports. Thirty-four-year-old Cameka Cathey is charged with first-degree murder.

Prosecutors say Cathey stabbed 65-year-old Marybeth Gaeng multiple times in the head. Gaeng died at a hospital a short time later.

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Police say the women didn't know each other and they don't know what led to the stabbing.

"There was no conversation, nothing, during that time," Breckenridge Hills Police Chief John Griffin told the paper. "She just approached the victim and just started stabbing the victim in the face and the head area."

Police said Cathey went to a nearby gas station to clean herself up. It was there that she was arrested.

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