Life prison sentence for mentally ill man who stabbed Wichita psychiatrist 160 times
A mentally ill man who killed a Wichita psychiatrist in 2017 will spend at least 25 years in prison.
Sedgwick County District Judge Tyler Roush on Tuesday ordered Umar Rashid Dutt, 26, to serve a life sentence for the Sept. 13, 2017, stabbing death of one of his doctors, 57-year-old Achutha Reddy.
Dutt must serve 25 years of the life sentence before he will be eligible for parole, said Dan Dillon, a spokesman for the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office. He will receive credit toward that time for the four years he’s already spent in jail waiting for his case to resolve, Dillon said.
Dutt pleaded guilty to an amended charge of first-degree felony murder in September, court records show. Prosecutors and police have said he terrorized Reddy inside of his clinic, Holistic Psychiatric Services near Central and Edgemoor, stabbed him more than 160 times with a knife and ran over the doctor with a car in an alley when Reddy tried to escape.
This story was originally published November 9, 2021 at 2:44 PM.
