NJ Dollar Store Argument Leads To Stabbing, 2 Charged, Police Say

MIDDLE TWP., NJ — A Cape May Court House couple were charged after an argument escalated into a stabbing, according to Middle Township police.

At about 5:50 p.m. on July 5, police responded to a Maryland Avenue home in the Burleigh section of the township for a reported stabbing.

Officers found a 27-year-old woman from Lynchburg, Virginia, with significant injury from an apparent knife assault and a 29-year-old man also from Lynchburg with multiple head and back injuries from a physical altercation, police said. Both were hospitalized.

An investigation found that the woman and Skyana Fireall, 27, had gotten into an argument at the Burleigh Dollar General, police said.

Shortly after, Fireall and her boyfriend, Sean Bey, 33, went to the victims' home, where Bey and the man got into a physical altercation, police said.

The woman tried to break up the fight when Fireall pulled out a knife and stabbed her on the upper left forearm, police said.

Fireall and Bey then took off in a vehicle, police said.

The couple was located and taken into custody.

Fireall was charged with aggravated assault, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, unlawful possession of a weapon and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

Bey was charged with aggravated assault and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

All four knew each other previously, police said.

Anyone with additional information related to this incident is encouraged to contact the Middle Township Police Department at 609-465-8704, the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office at 609-465-1135, or to submit tips anonymously through the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office website at cmcpo.tips.