By Vicky Wedig
Staff Writer
A psychological examination was ordered Feb. 3 for a Madison man who allegedly stabbed a woman at her Whitewater apartment in November.
The prosecution and defense stipulated to a competency exam in January for Jason L. Grant, 28, who was charged Nov. 25 in Walworth County Circuit Court with 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 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.
The woman was taken to Fort Memorial Hospital in Fort Atkinson where she told police she’d met Grant on Facebook and invited him to stay at her residence, according to the complaint. On the night of Nov. 17, she said, Grant drank heavily and an argument ensued when she refused to give him her prescription medication.
The woman said Grant wouldn’t let her leave the apartment and pushed her into a wall, choked her and lifted her off the ground by her neck, according to the complaint. The woman said Grant hit her several times in the face, and then grabbed a knife and said, “F— this. I have to finish you off.”
The woman said Grant stabbed her in the left side with the knife, according to the complaint. She said Grant then dropped the knife, flipped her over the bed, struck her in the head with a piece of bed frame and again tried to stab her, according to the complaint.
At that point, the woman said she was able to get her hands on the knife and struggled with Grant for the knife. She said Grant got the knife to her throat, and then they heard someone knock at the door that turned out to be Whitewater police, according to the complaint.
