Overview
- Officers who responded just after midnight on Aug. 6 to a 911 call found a woman with blood on her hands and then discovered her husband inside with a stab wound.
- Firefighters transported 54-year-old Kevin Windley to a hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
- Police say 55-year-old Marcel Windley told investigators she became angry during an argument and stabbed her husband, and detectives recovered a knife with a red substance on the tip.
- Marcel Windley was arrested at the scene and booked into the Maricopa County jail on suspicion of second-degree murder with a reported $1 million bond.
- The Mesa Police Department says the investigation is ongoing and that forensic testing and prosecutor review will guide whether formal charges are filed and what additional facts are released.