A Cobb County woman is accused of stabbing her sister to death with a steak knife in the family's home, police said.
Chakaya Brittney Folborg, 21, was arrested early Tuesday, hours after she allegedly killed 21-year-old Kourtney Chanel Dyches, Officer Mike Bowman with Cobb County police said. Folborg turned herself into police around 3 a.m. Tuesday, jail records show.
Folborg, of Mableton, was charged with felony murder and aggravated assault and booked into the Cobb County jail, where she remained Wednesday without bond.
Investigators believe a dispute between the sisters led to the killing, which happened with other family members in the home, Bowman said. Officers were called to the family's Gallant Circle home shortly after 11 p.m. Monday. Dyches was dead when officers arrived and had been stabbed several times, Bowman said.
Lisha Mauzy told the AJC she and Dyches, who also went by Chanel, were friends while attending Hiram High School. Dyches attended the Paulding County school for two years before her family moved into the McEachern High School district in Cobb County, Mauzy said.
“She was sweet. Everybody respected her,” Mauzy said of her friend. “This caught everybody off guard.”
Mauzy said news of Dyches’ death spread quickly on Facebook and Twitter, with many friends shocked that a relative was believed responsible.
“Life’s too short,” Mauzy said. “I work in the hospital, so I deal with death all the time. But I’ve never had someone close to me die.”
Folborg’s criminal history includes a November 2010 arrest on misdemeanor battery and cruelty to children charges, according to arrest records. Folborg was arrested Nov. 25, 2010, after she allegedly pushed, scratched and struck a man while she was holding her child, according to the arrest warrant.
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