KBI
QUINTER – The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and local law enforcement are investigating a suspected homicide in which a Hoxie man was reportedly stabbed to death in Quniter.
The Gove County Sheriff’s Office contacted the KBI at about 1:10 a.m. Tuesday to request assistance investigating a suspected homicide that occurred in Quinter.
Preliminary information indicates a dispute between two men occurred at about 12:45 Tuesday morning in a motel room at the 1st Inn, 1202 Castle Rock St. in Quinter.
During the altercation, 24-year-old James “Dalton” Brown of Hoxie received multiple stab wounds. EMS responded and transported Brown to the Gove County Medical Center where he died as a result of his injuries.
Also injured during the incident was Jordyn O’Neal, 23, of Quinter. She was transported to Via Christi Hospital Saint Francis in Wichita with non-life-threatening stab wounds.
Authorities began looking for Anthony Turner, 24, of Park, who was believed to be the second male involved in the motel dispute. At 2:30 a.m., Turner was located and arrested by the Gove County Sheriff’s Office and the Kansas Highway Patrol at a residence on the north side of Quinter.
Shortly after, Turner was taken to the Gove County Medical Center to be treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, which he sustained during the altercation at the motel. When released from the hospital, he was booked into the Trego County Jail for first degree murder.
During the investigation, suspected explosives were found, and the Kansas Highway Patrol bomb squad was called in to investigate, a KBI spokeswoman said.
The Kansas Highway Patrol and the Quinter Police Department assisted in the investigation. This investigation is ongoing.