Vacationer jailed after alleged drunken stabbing at Hilton Head rental home
A vacationer from North Carolina was jailed early Tuesday morning after allegedly stabbing her acquaintance during a drunken dispute inside a Hilton Head Island rental home.
Kyra Dawn Honeycut, 19, of Spruce Pine, N.C., was charged with attempted murder, an offense punishable by up to 30 years in prison under South Carolina law.
Police say Honeycut had been playing drinking games with three others sharing the rental home on Folly Field Road early Tuesday morning when she began arguing with one of the male guests. She then grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed the man multiple times, according to Lt. Daniel Allen of the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies were called to the short-term rental around 1:45 a.m. and found the 25-year-old man with several lacerations to his neck and upper body. He was taken to Hilton Head Hospital before being transferred to a Savannah facility with non-life-threatening injuries, Allen said.
Honeycut was booked later that morning at the Beaufort County Detention Center, according to inmate rosters. Court records did not yet list a public defender or her bond information.
This story was originally published August 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM.
