Man sentenced to 16+ years in prison for fatal Wichita stabbing along Arkansas River

A 35-year-old homeless person who fatally stabbed a Wichita man earlier this year near the Arkansas River was sentenced on Friday to more than 16 years in prison, according to the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office.

Todd Edward Angevine, who pleaded guilty of second-degree murder in September, was given 200 months in the April 7 killing of Lonnie A. Hunter.

The 43-year-old Wichita man was stabbed multiple times, including in the neck.

Hunter and a group of people were walking just north of the Lincoln Street Bridge along the river when he and another person in the group made comments about a dog they saw. The other person told police that he said he would seriously hurt the dog if it came near him, according to court documents.

Angevine came out of a tent yelling over what they said about his dog, the documents say. Multiple people in the group said Angevine was holding a pipe and a knife, according to the court documents.

Angevine and Hunter subsequently got into a fight.

One person in the group shoved Angevine off of Hunter. That’s when Hunter said “I’ve been stabbed” and Angevine replied “That’s what you get,” that person told police.

Another person in the group said Angevine then went back to the tent and said “go on or you’ll get stabbed again,” according to court documents.

Police were called at 12:42 a.m. to a stabbing near Lincoln and McLean.

Hunter died at the scene.

Angevine left before police arrived, but a Substance Abuse Center of Kansas form in the tent had Angevine’s name.

Police picked up Angevine and another man at a homeless resource event later that day. Angevine has been in jail since then.

The man said, when Angevine was in a fight with Hunter, another person punched Angevine in the head. Angevine told police he was afraid.

“He didn’t remember stabbing the male,” a detective wrote in a court document. “Angevine said that all fights he’s been in when he’s gotten hit in the head, he’s blacked out. He said that a voice takes over, like a split personality.”

In a couple recorded calls at Sedgwick County Jail, Angevine also told a person he killed someone but didn’t remember it, according to court records.