It was gathered that the victim, a 47-year-old man, was taken to a nearby hospital where he died from his wounds.
The suspect, 53-year-old Akiba Kasale Meredith, had fled the area on foot after stabbing her brother to death.
WJCL reports that the authorities confirmed the death of the person who was stabbed on Monday at Oyotunji African Village in Beaufort County.
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office reported that their communications centre received a stabbing report on Monday at about 2:45 p.m. The incident occurred at the village on Bryant Lane.
However, Meredith was found a short time later. She was charged with murder and taken to the Beaufort County Detention Center.
Oyotunji Village, founded in 1970 by Walter Eugene King, is a cultural and religious community for African American practitioners of the West African Yoruba faith, named to signify the rebirth of the Yoruba kingdom of Oyo near South Carolina.
King, influenced by Afro-Haitian traditions, the Katherine Dunham Dance Troupe, and his initiation into the Orisha priesthood in Cuba in 1959, initially established the Yoruba Temple in Harlem in 1960.
Motivated by Black nationalism, King created Oyotunji Village to preserve and institutionalize African traditions.
The village’s early years saw a community of around two hundred, but now it hosts fewer than ten families, governed by an Oba and a council. The community upholds Yoruba traditions through rituals, chants, music, and ceremonies. Since 2005, Adejuyigbe Adefunmi II has been the Oba.
Over forty years old, Oyotunji continues to celebrate and educate about Yoruba culture through festivals, a bazaar, and various media, supported by the African Theological Archministry and its network.