Johns Island, SC - The Charleston County Sheriff's Office say they have arrested a 21-year-old man for stabbing and beating a woman on Johns Island.

Cedrick Simmons has been charged with assault and battery with intent to kill.

Police say while at MUSC, officers saw a green Ford Expedition speed up to the emergency room with the driver, Simmons, leaving the vehicle yelling for help stating that they had been robbed.

Authorities approached Simmons who was covered in blood and had a laceration to the right side of his head. Simmons opened the back driver side door revealing a woman, Chawnie Shaw, who was covered in blood as well.

Simmons told officials that they both had been robbed and Shaw had been stabbed multiple times with police observing a laceration to Shaw’s neck. Shaw was taken into emergency treatment and Simmons was escorted to registration after determining that the laceration on his head was not life threatening.

MUSC police told authorities that Shaw told them that Simmons had stabbed her and that they were not robbed. MUSC police stayed with Simmons while police confirmed the information with Shaw. Authorities then detained Simmons and began an investigation.

According to Shaw, Simmons, who has two children in common with Shaw, had asked her to go somewhere and talk. Shaw said that Simmons talked her into going to a gas station with Simmons asking her to stop in dark secluded places on the way. 

After the two got gas, Simmons began to tell Shaw that he was sick and asked her to stop in dark wooded areas, Shaw says. Shaw told authorities she then pulled over and noticed that Simmons was wearing gloves. Shaw said Simmons did not throw up and she began to drive again. She says she then felt a ‘hard hit’ on her head and when she turned to look she saw Simmons had a knife and started to slice her. 

Shaw said she opened the driver door and fell out of the vehicle, and at that point Simmons stopped the vehicle, got out, and began kicking, punching and stabbing her. 

She said that when she began to scream, he choked her and dragged her by her hair and put her in the back side seat. Shaw said she left the car once again and Simmons grabbed her from behind, choked her and then beat her.

Shaw says that Simmons then dragged her back to the vehicle and forced her into the back seat, activated the child safety locks and told her that he would drive her to the hospital but she couldn’t tell on him. Simmons told her that they needed to come up with a story that they had been robbed and Shaw said she agreed so he would take her to the hospital, according to Shaw. 

Shaw stated that Simmons threw the knife out of the passenger window on the Wappoo Bridge and proceeded to MUSC.

Simmons has been taken CCDC (web | news) for booking and holding.

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