SUTTONS BAY -- Nancy Kenney lives in an old farm house tucked among the woods and rolling fields that border French Road in northern Leelanau County.
Kenney's residence is a short distance from a house where police contend a man fatally stabbed another man during an early-Monday argument. She called friends and family in an attempt to find out more details.
"I guess you'd have to say shock that something like that would happen in this area," Kenney said. "It's a very, very quiet road. It's (surprising) to hear something like that happened so close to where you live."
The incident happened at about 1 a.m. Monday. A Suttons Bay man, 33, died not long after being stabbed at the Leland Township residence, police said.
Leelanau Sheriff Mike Oltersdorf wouldn't identify the victim or the suspect Monday, but a probable cause statement filed with the court named a 35-year-old suspect and said the incident happened at the suspect's home. The document doesn't identify the victim.
The suspect left the scene after the stabbing, but turned himself in around 5 a.m., Oltersdorf said. He was in custody at the Leelanau County Jail Monday, but prosecutors hadn't charged him with a crime by mid-afternoon. A charging decision could come today, officials said.
Oltersdorf wouldn't say what the men were arguing about, but said the incident wasn't random.
"These people knew each other ... " Oltersdorf said. "It wasn't a robbery, it wasn't a drug deal gone bad. It wasn't a theft or anything of that nature."
The suspect told police he stabbed the victim as the other man tried to enter his home, according to the probable cause statement.
"(The suspect) told (a deputy) by phone that he stabbed the victim. He later told Detective Clint Kerr that the victim pushed him and tried to gain entry into his house, so he grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed him in the chest," the probable cause statement reads.
A friend of the victim began to drive him to the hospital, Oltersdorf said, but called 911 once he realized his condition was grave. Paramedics arrived and pronounced the man dead.
The suspect is "well-known" to the department, Oltersdorf said. He's previously been booked into the jail 13 times. Deputies called his cell phone not long after the incident and convinced him to turn himself in, Oltersdorf said, and he did so without incident.
Janet Metevia, 54, lives next door to the stabbing site. She doesn't know much about the residents at the stabbing scene, and she went to visit her friend Susan Och Monday morning when she heard of the incident.
"I'm just shaking, that's why I came down to see if Sue knew anything," Metevia said. "It's kind of unnerving."
Och, who lives a few hundred yards from the home, also was surprised.
"There's not much to say," she said. "This is not what we'd expect in this neighborhood."
Record-Eagle staff writer Alex Piazza contributed to this report.
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