Woman accused of stabbing piano teacher
NORTH MIAMI BEACH -- A woman taking piano lessons is accused of ambushing her piano teacher and repeatedly stabbing her, with little or no explanation, CBS Miami reported.
A young woman reportedly witnessed the attack in the North Miami Beach office building where she works.
" I just heard someone screaming hysterically," the woman told the station.
She said she saw 41-year old Sharon Clahar standing over the victim, her piano teacher, with a large knife, stabbing her.
"It was repeated and the lady you could see she was struggling....(the victim) was screaming and telling us to help and she was bleeding and call 911 and I was yelling," she recounted to CBS Miami.
Employees said Clahar was waiting inside a dentist's office next door to the piano lesson studio, and was calm. She told them she had an appointment, and the employees did not see a knife.
They say when the piano teacher came to open up her studio, Clahar attacked.
According to police, the witness eventually convinced Clahar to stop the assault.
"I yelled for her to stop, and from my yell from her to stop, I just ran to try to get someone to call police."
Investigators say Clahar did stop then. And, the witness said, she seemed untroubled by what had happened.
"We see her walking down the hallway with the knife in her hand. She was so calm. Too calm. Too too calm. She said nothing. So I told my coworker 'that's her, hurry up and lock the door,' because I saw her trying to open the dentist's door. So I didn't know what she was gonna do next," she told the station.
Police caught up to Clahar outside the building and charged her with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. They are not identifying the piano teacher, but said she was stabbed several times in the upper arm area and is expected to be okay.
Employees in the office building said she had just recently started giving piano lessons there.
Clahar was being held on $10,000 bond.