'This home matched his needs': Man seeking to kill someone picked random home with cars in driveway, knocked on the door and beat woman holding a baby with hammer, cops say

A 43-year-old Kansas antheral allegedly spent his Christmas Eve connected a ngo to termination idiosyncratic and equipped himself with a hammer earlier knocking connected a doorway of a location with respective cars successful the driveway.

When a pistillate holding her 1-month-old babe answered, the fishy — aboriginal identified arsenic Jason Eastburn — pounced, cops say. He repeatedly deed her successful the caput with the hammer, requiring doctors to spot up the coiled connected her caput with 4 staples, according to a probable origin apprehension affidavit released connected Monday.

The incidental unfolded soon aft 9:30 a.m. connected Dec. 24 astatine a location successful the 7200 artifact of 24th Street successful Wichita. A 22-year-old pistillate called cops to accidental idiosyncratic successful a bluish button-down garment broke successful and was "trying to termination them."

Cops rushed to the country and recovered Eastburn astatine a parkland crossed the thoroughfare from the location with an wounded to his forehead. They arrested him. One of the victims said she was holding her babe erstwhile she heard a sound astatine the door. She opened the door, reasoning it was idiosyncratic selling something.

But the antheral was nary salesman.

"When she answered the door, the antheral smiled astatine her and told her 'I'm going to termination you,'" cops wrote. "The antheral pulled a hammer from down his backmost with his close manus and pushed his mode into the residence. The antheral struck her an chartless fig of times with the hammer connected the near broadside of her head."

Other radical successful the home, including a 76-year-old grandmother, grabbed the man, which allowed the pistillate and her babe to flight to different room, the affidavit stated. After wrestling with immoderate of the home's residents, Eastburn dropped the hammer and ran to the park, wherever helium was arrested.

A paramedic said connected the mode to the hospital, Eastburn told her "I killed a pistillate implicit there," according to the affidavit. Post-Miranda, helium allegedly told officers helium often drove by the location and saw respective cars successful the driveway.

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"Jason told Officer Byers helium wanted to termination idiosyncratic successful a location with a batch of radical successful it, and believed this location matched his needs," cops wrote.

Eastburn besides told cops that the hammer helium utilized successful the alleged onslaught was "sentimental" to him due to the fact that it erstwhile belonged to his father. He inherited it, on with the location helium lived in, and helium said being unsocial "triggers" him emotionally. He stated helium whitethorn endure from a intelligence unwellness but was not taking immoderate medicine to code it.

The fishy stated it was his "intention to kill" the pistillate who answered the doorway and that helium was "guilty of attempted murder."

"Jason said that helium knew what helium did was wrong, and that helium was embarrassed and ashamed of his actions," cops wrote. "He said that helium has had homicidal thoughts for a portion and referenced issues from his childhood. Jason said helium wanted to halt his family's generational violence. He was relieved to beryllium successful a spot wherever helium could nary longer wounded anyone."

Eastburn is facing a slew of charges, including attempted murder successful the archetypal degree, aggravated artillery and aggravated endangering a child. He remains successful the Sedgwick County Jail without bond.