By Vicky Wedig
Staff Writer
A Madison man who was scheduled to go on trial last month for allegedly stabbing a woman at her Whitewater apartment in 2014 is set for a status conference Aug. 3.
Jason L. Grant, 29, was scheduled to be tried June 27, 28 and 29 for attempted first-degree intentional homicide, strangulation and suffocation and false imprisonment, all as a repeater. If convicted on all counts, he faces up to 86 years in prison.
According to police and the criminal complaint, Whitewater police responded to the woman’s South Janesville Street apartment Nov. 18, 2014, after a neighbor reported hearing a domestic disturbance coming from the unit. When the door of the apartment opened, an officer saw a man inside the apartment, later identified as Grant, holding a large knife in his hand, according to the complaint. Grant dropped the knife when he saw the officer, according to the complaint.
The officer reported Grant’s socks, hands and arms were covered in blood, and he told police as he was being handcuffed, “It would have been a real murder in this mother—er in a minute.”
Another officer found the woman lying facedown on the floor with blood covering her face and hands and a stab wound to the left side of her torso, according to the complaint.
