Man charged with murder after he calls police, says “he woke up and his girlfriend is dead”

A Myrtle Beach man has been charged with murder in connection with his girlfriend’s death. 

John Harrelson, of the Horry County Police Department, says 25-year-old Harley Dakota Gray has been charged with murder, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, and a fugitive from justice. 

Gray was booked into the J. Reuben Long Detention Center on Thursday around 1:30 p.m. and remains in the center, according to booking records. No bail has been set. 

A police report from the department says police received a call from Gray on Wednesday around 5 a.m. Gray told police dispatch he was in the roadway near Highway 9 and Pleasantdale Road and he wanted to turn himself in to police because “he woke and his girlfriend is dead.” Gray also told police dispatch he had done “molly with his girlfriend last night” and had had woken up and “there was blood everywhere.”

According to the report, when police arrived, they located Gray laying in the road on his stomach and he appeared to be under the influence of an unknown substance. 

Gray told police “his girlfriend is gone and he doesn’t know what he did, but he believes she is dead,” the report also says. Gray then offered to take police to a house where is girlfriend was, but didn’t know the address. 

Police were able to find out the location of Gray’s first call from dispatchers, according to the report. When officers arrived at the address, they talked to a family who said they didn’t know Gray. 

Officers then knocked on the doors of nearby houses to try to find a crime scene, the report also says. During this, officers noticed a house with a screen door “opened all the way” and saw a young boy sleeping on a couch. The boy’s mother came to the door abd police explained they were looking for a crime scene. The woman told police she knew the victim. The woman then went to another room of the home and when she came back, police say she told them the victim was “not ok.” Officers then made entry into the home, where they found the victim deceased with what police believed to be “that of multiple stab wounds.”