Leavenworth woman charged with murder in fiancé’s stabbing death, prosecutor says
A woman has been arrested on accusations that she fatally stabbed her fiancé Saturday morning in Leavenworth, police said.
Officers were called to the stabbing shortly before 1 a.m. at a residence in the 2500 block of Fourth Avenue, where they found a wounded 44-year-old Jerrold Rhodes, according to the Leavenworth Police Department.
Medical personnel performed life-saving measures on Rhodes, but he died at the scene, Police Chief Pat Kitchens said.
The 39-year-old suspect, Eva Banks, was taken into custody at the scene, Kitchens said. The focus of the police investigation, he said, was “domestic violence.”
Banks has been charged with second-degree murder, according to Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson.
The homicide marked the third this year in Leavenworth, according to data maintained by The Star.
