WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An arrest has been made in the fatal stabbing of a man over the New Year’s weekend in Wichita.
Bryce Marc Johnston, 27, of Bel Aire, was booked early Monday into the Sedgwick County Jail on suspicion of first-degree murder in the Sunday killing of 44-year-old Jayson Stalkup, of Wichita, police said.
Officers were called at 5 p.m. Sunday to an apartment complex in north Wichita where they found Stalkup in the parking lot, investigators said. Stalkup had been stabbed repeatedly and died at the scene.
Around the same time, police were called to a vehicle crash involving Johnston. Responding officers determined Johnston was a suspect in the stabbing and took him into custody.
Investigators believe Johnston and Stalkup knew each other and were involved in an altercation before the stabbing.
Johnston is being held on $500,000 bond.
