A Jackson teen was recovering Wednesday afternoon following surgery for a stabbing that happened when she opened her door to a stranger.
The 17-year-old girl told Aiken County authorities that the suspect was skinny.
“When she said skinny, she meant meth head skinny,” mother Jessica Nicole Virella told The Jail Report. “He was on edge and super skinny.”
Virella said her daughter is a USC Aiken student who was at home recovering from a fall down the stairs at school. She was asleep around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday when someone knocked at the door of her home on Cassel Street. The teen thought it was her mother returning from work.
Instead, it was a skinny man with a surgical mask, food-service gloves and cheap sunglasses. His whole face was covered, but the daughter said she thinks he was white because one of his dark socks had a hole in it. “She saw his toe was white,” Virella said.
The man asked “Where is he?”
Virella says she is in the middle of a custody battle, and she is not sure if the stabbing has something to do with that, or whether it was a random attack.
After the man realized the teen was not helpful, he stabbed her in the side and fled. She then called 911 and texted her mom.
The teen underwent exploratory surgery and was resting Wednesday afternoon, her mother said. Luckily, the suspect didn’t mess up anything internally, she said.
The Aiken County Sheriff’s Office is assisting Jackson Police in investigating the stabbing. Several units, including K9s, surrounded the mobile home during a search for the alleged attacker.
If you have any information that can help, please call the ACSO at 803-648-6811.
