HUTCHINSON, Kan. – Police have made an arrest of a suspect for a stabbing in Carey Park. The victim were told actually called in the report.
The calling party was the victim who had been stabbed multiple times in the head and was bleeding profusely. She believed that the suspect may have taken one of the small children that were with the couple as they had been driving through the park.
The first officers on scene located and began treating the victim and quickly determined that both children were still in the vehicle and safe. Additional officers began setting up a perimeter and eventually took the suspect into custody near the intersection of Blanchard and Emerson Loop East. He was transported to Hutchinson Regional Medical Center for a laceration believed to have occurred during the attack.
Officers searching the area located a bloody kitchen knife as well as several small bloody plastic baggies of suspected marijuana believed to be connected with this case. These items were located between the location of the stabbing and where he was taken into custody.
The suspect, Elijah B Norris, after treatment at was transported to the Reno County Correctional Facility and booked
The victim in the case was transported to Hutchinson Regional Medical Center Reno County EMS before being transported by ground ambulance to Via Cristi St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Wichita. Her injuries appear non-life threatening, but the nature of those injuries required more advance treatment. The two small children were released to close family members of the victim.
Norris is jailed for not only that stabbing, but also drugs. Potential charges include aggravated battery, distribution of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Bond set at $50,000.
Norris has served time in prison for aggravated battery, possession of drugs and burglary.