UPDATE: Police identify Kansas doctor stabbed to death at his office

The physician worked at a practice on North Carriage Pkwy in Wichita -google image

SEDGWICK COUNTY — Police are investigating a stabbing death and have a suspect in custody.

Just before 7:30 p.m. Wednesday police responded to report of a stabbing at 625 North Carriage Parkway in Wichita, according to police Lt. Todd Ojile.

Upon arrival, officers found a 57-year-old victim identified at Dr. Achutha Reddy in an alley behind the business with numerous stab wounds, according to Ojile.

Emergency Medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.

At 7:40p.m. police were dispatched to a report of suspicious person at the Wichita Country Club. A security guard at the club had observed a suspicious person sitting in a car at the club. The individual had blood on him. Police arrived and arrested 21-year suspect Umar Dutt for the death of Dr. Reddy.

An investigation revealed that Dutt was a client of Dr. Reddy and had been at the office Wednesday.

The suspect left and later returned with Dr. Reddy. They entered an office and a short time later an office manager heard a disturbance. She told police she saw Dutt assault the doctor and attempted to intervene, according to Ojile. This allowed the doctor to flee the office.

The suspect chased the doctor into the alley where police believe the second assault occurred.

Early Thursday police booked Dutt into the Sedgwick County jail on first-degree murder charges. Authorities will present the case to the district attorney on Friday afternoon.

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WICHITA— A man has been arrested in the stabbing death of a doctor at his holistic medicine practice in east Wichita.

The suspect identified as Umar Dutt, 21, was taken into custody near the Wichita County Club. The Sedgwick County Jail booking report shows he is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder in the Wednesday night killing.

Wichita Police Lt. Drew Seiler says the attack happened after a man entered a business to talk with a doctor. Seiler says “one of the doctors was stabbed multiple times” during the conversation. Seiler says the doctor was found outside the business in a back parking lot. The doctor’s name wasn’t immediately released.