A Hanahan man is charged with attempted murder and assault after being accused of pushing a mother in a fire and then stabbing her son.
According to an incident report, police were called out to a home on Hilt Street in North Charleston about 11:30 Sunday night, finding a 20-year-old with a stab wound on his chest.
The 38-year-old mother told police she was standing in her backyard by a fire, when Ronald Michael Pye, 39, grabbed her by the hair and held her in the fire. She told police he approached her without provocation. That’s when the woman ran inside her house and told her 20-year-old son. He came outside and confronted Pye.
He told police that Pye pushed him, so he punched Pye. That’s when he told police that Pye stabbed him.
Police found the 20-year-old walking down Hilt Street shirtless with blood running down his chest.
Both the mother and the son were taken to the hospital. The mother had singed hair and burn marks on her arms and hands.
Pye is charged with attempted murder, second degree assault, and possession of a knife during the commission of a violent crime.
