After car stop, teen boy arrested in fatal stabbing of 27-year-old man in Newton
Authorities in Newton have arrested a teenage boy who, during a traffic stop, reported his involvement in a deadly stabbing.
Newton police spotted the 16-year-old boy “driving erratically” in the 2000 block of West First Street around 10:45 p.m. Thursday and pulled him over, according to a Friday morning news release from the city’s director of communications, Erin McDaniel.
The teen immediately told the officer “he had just been involved in a fight and had stabbed someone,” the release says. “A bloody knife was found in the vehicle.”
Authorities found the stabbing victim, a 27-year-old man, in the 100 block of Evans, suffering from life-threatening injuries. The man was taken to a Wichita hospital for treatment but didn’t survive.
Authorities did not give details about what led to the fight or how the teen knows the man. Their names have not been released.
“There is no threat to the public related to this situation, and the investigation is ongoing,” the release says.
Police are investigating the death as a homicide.
This story was originally published February 26, 2021 at 9:12 AM.
