Wichita police arrest murder suspect in stabbing of 28-year-old woman

A Wichita man is now a murder suspect after a woman was stabbed to death over the weekend.

Jason Leigh McCaleb was arrested by Wichita police on Saturday on suspicion of intentional and premeditated first-degree murder, jail records show. He was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail, where he is being held in lieu of a $500,000 bond.

He has not been charged in Sedgwick County District Court as of Sunday morning, records show.

Police were first dispatched at around 4:10 a.m. Saturday to a cutting call at a home in the 2400 block of South Washington, department spokesman Officer Kevin Wheeler previously said. They found a 28-year-old woman who had been stabbed multiple times. She was taken to a hospital, where she died from her injuries.

Law enforcement have not publicly identified the victim.

Wheeler had said a 44-year-old man who police found at the home was being interviewed by detectives that morning. He said the killing was not random, but did not elaborate.

McCaleb, a 44-year-old man, was booked into jail that afternoon, arrest records show. He was arrested at the same house where he lives, in the 2400 block of South Washington.

This story was originally published November 24, 2019 at 10:46 AM.