Preliminary Hearing Set for Holton Stabbing Suspect
12/16/2015

(KNZA)--A January 14th preliminary hearing has been set for a Horton man charged in connection with a stabbing in Holton last month.

Jackson County Attorney Shawna Miller told MSC News that came during a status hearing Monday for 22-year-old Austin Lee Whitebird, whose charged with aggravated battery.

He’s accused of stabbing a 26-year-old man, whose identity hasn’t been made public, multiple times at a residence in the 100 block of New York Street in Holton on the evening of November 23rd.

The victim was initially taken to the Holton Hospital for treatment of life-threatening injuries and later transferred to a Topeka hospital.

Whitebird was arrested by Jackson County Sheriff’s deputies the following day after he was located in a vehicle south of Holton.

He remains in the Jackson County Jail.


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