Manhattan man arrested for murder in the first degree after woman dies from stabbing
MANHATTAN (KSNT) - Police in Manhattan have arrested a local man for murder after a woman died from a stabbing on Tuesday.
The Riley County Police Department is reporting that Hunter Logan Smith, 24, of Manhattan was arrested around 11:50 a.m. on Nov. 5 for murder in the first degree; intentional and premeditated in the 3000 block of Arbor Drive. He was arrested on probable cause and taken to the Riley County Jail.
The RCPD said Smith's arrest was made in connection to a stabbing incident that occurred just after 11:30 a.m. on Nov. 5 in the 3000 block of Arbor Drive. Police were called to the scene for a reported stabbing and found a 24-year-old woman from Mountain Home, Arkansas, identified later as Tabatha Deer, who had sustained multiple stab wounds.
Emergency workers took her to a local hospital before she was airlifted to a hospital in Topeka. Deer later died of her injuries.
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