Parolee told cops he stabbed Wichita husband and wife in self defense, affidavit says
The parolee charged with murdering a 64-year-old Wichita woman and severely wounding her 73-year-old husband during a random attack at their south-side home earlier this month told police after his arrest that he stabbed the couple in self-defense, according to an affidavit released this week by a Sedgwick County judge.
Goldy L. Metcalf, the 36-year-old who is facing nine criminal charges in a Dec. 4 crime spree that also included a car break-in and a carjacking, told a Wichita police detective that he went into Marcelo and Rosane Machado’s house because the door was unlocked.
Metcalf told the detective “he was being chased by white males and the FBI” and that “he stole a vehicle and crashed it and ran because he was still being chased,” the affidavit says.
“He said he found an unlocked door and went in and found a male and female (the Machados) and asked them for help.”
Metcalf told the detective that Marcelo Machado hit his head with a skillet, “so he grabbed the skillet and hit” him back. Metcalf went on to say that he grabbed a knife and stabbed Marcelo Machado then turned on Rosane, stabbing her in the stomach, after she “‘rushed him,” the affidavit says.
Rosane Machado uttered one phrase after she was wounded, Metcalf told the detective: “Sweet Jesus.”
Metcalf then took off and “continued to run” because he believed “he was being chased,” the affidavit says he told the detective.
The Machados, Brazilian natives and longtime missionaries who moved to Wichita and became American citizens, were in the kitchen of their home when Metcalf — a stranger — came in, according to the affidavit. Rosane was making breakfast; her husband was nearby.
Marcelo Machado told police in an interview after the stabbing that his wife went to the back door, opened it and shouted, asking what whoever was out there wanted.
Marcelo Machado told police Rosane tried to keep the stranger out of their home but he forced his way inside, yelling that someone outside had a gun and “was trying to kill him,” the affidavit says.
Rosane responded that no one was there.
But Metcalf pushed her to the ground, Marcelo Machado told police.
What came next were the actions of a husband trying to protect his wife.
According to the affidavit, Marcelo Machado “ran across the kitchen area and head-butted” Metcalf in the face “to get him away from Rosane,” who was on the ground praying.
Metcalf then “pushed his way into the kitchen, grabbed a frying pan and slammed” it against Marcelo’s head.
Marcelo Machado responded by hitting Metcalf “several times.”
Metcalf swung the pan again and missed, giving Marcelo a chance to run to the front door, where he screamed for his neighbors to help.
Marcelo rushed back inside of his home and into the kitchen but didn’t see his wife, the affidavit says he told police.
Metcalf, however, was there. So Marcelo rushed at him again.
Marcelo told police that’s when Metcalf stabbed him “multiple times” before running out of the back door.
When Marcelo followed to see where Metcalf had gone, he found his wife “collapsed on the patio,” covered in blood. He retrieved a phone and called 911 at 8:11 a.m.
First responders rushed the couple to the hospital, where doctors determined Marcelo had suffered puncture wounds to his upper right abdomen, upper left forearm and to each side of his neck, according to the affidavit.
Rosane had puncture wounds on the left side of her head and to her upper left torso. The stab wound on her abdomen was fatal, damaging her liver, heart and a lung, the coroner determined. She died at 8:56 a.m.
Wichita police said earlier this month that officers had contact with Metcalf in the hours before the deadly stabbing when they responded to a 911 call from a man holding Metcalf at gunpoint for allegedly breaking into his vehicle. Police gave Metcalf a written citation over the incident, which occurred shortly before 5 a.m. on Dec. 4, and took him to a nearby hospital at 5:38 a.m. to have a lip injury treated, the affidavit says.
Metcalf ran out of the hospital at 7:58 a.m. before his treatment was complete, stole a truck from a man gathering scrap metal from trash bins at 600 N. Emporia and sped off, wrecking into a church building in the 600 block of South Poplar around 8:05 a.m., the affidavit says.
The stabbing at the Machados’ home, in the 600 block of South Green, occurred moments later.
Police finally caught up with Metcalf after he allegedly broke into another home sometime between 8:11 a.m. and 8:40 a.m., according to the affidavit. He was still wearing the hospital bracelet he’d been issued earlier in the morning when officers arrested him in the area of Poplar and Kellogg Drive, the affidavit says.
Metcalf is charged with first-degree premeditated murder, attempted first-degree murder, aggravated burglary, burglary, theft, criminal trespass and three counts of criminal damage to property, court records show. His next court date is Dec. 20.
This story was originally published December 16, 2021 at 6:38 PM.
