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Q13 FOX News is learning more about the main suspect in the brutal stabbing death in Seattle's South Park neighborhood that left one woman dead after a brutal attack. Sources tell Q13 FOX that Isaiah Kalebu is also the lone suspect in a deadly fire that killed two people earlier this month in University Place.
Police believe Isaiah Kalebu may have started a fire that killed his aunt and her roommate at their University Place home on July 9th.
Q13 FOX News has also learned that Kalebu's aunt Rachel Kalebu filed a restraining order against Isaiah one day before she was killed in the fire. According to the restraining order, she revealed that Kalebu has a history of mental illness. She also urged Kalebu to participate in a mental health treatment program and to take his medicine.
Court documents obtained by Q13 FOX News reveal a troubling home life for the woman. She wrote, "Isaiah has threatened me very many times and is very defiant, disrespectful to me. It is the truth that I am a prisoner in my own home."
Also in the home and a victim of the fire was former NFL Quarterback J.J. Jones. He played for the New York Jets in the 1970's. His best friend, Leonard Elion, told Q13 FOX News that Jones was one of the first three African-American quarterbacks in the NFL. He says Jones was third string when Joe Namath was the quarterback.
Kalebu was arrested Friday night after a Metro bus driver spotted him in Magnuson Park in Seattle. He faced a judge this weekend and is facing charges of murder, attempted murder, rape and burglary for the South Park attack.
On Friday morning, Seattle Police released video time-stamped March 2008 showing a man standing outside a door with a pit bull on a leash. That video came from a 2008 burglary in Auburn. Police sources say that DNA and fingerprints from that scene, matched evidence from the South Park murder site.
Hours after the release of the video, police provided photos calling Kalebu a suspect in the South Park stabbing case.
Kalebu was spotted and finally arrested Friday night at Magnuson Park in Seattle.
Watch Surveillance Video: Different Angle Shows the suspect
The arrest comes five days after the brutal stabbing attack in South Park neighborhood. Stabbing victim, Teresa Butz, was killed and her 36-year-old partner was wounded and is now recovering.
The community gathered together to pay their respects last Thursday but the fear continued to loom until the arrest of the suspect Friday night.
Investigators reveal that Kalebu was brought in for questioning for the University Place fire but was released because of lack of evidence. Pierce County officials viewed the surveillance tape released by police Friday. "When we saw the video of the suspect with the pit bull, all of our hearts down here skipped a beat," said Sgt. Ed Troyer of the Pierce County sheriff's office, which is investigating the fire. "Unfortunately, we didn't have enough to arrest him."
Earlier this month, he was released without bail in King County, pending a trial for allegedly threatening to kill his mother last year. A judge in that case declined to have the suspect locked up six days before the brutal stabbing attack in South Park.
Kalebu is being held on $10 million bail.
Sketch of suspect
Police believe Isaiah Kalebu may have started a fire that killed his aunt and her roommate at their University Place home on July 9th.
Q13 FOX News has also learned that Kalebu's aunt Rachel Kalebu filed a restraining order against Isaiah one day before she was killed in the fire. According to the restraining order, she revealed that Kalebu has a history of mental illness. She also urged Kalebu to participate in a mental health treatment program and to take his medicine.
Court documents obtained by Q13 FOX News reveal a troubling home life for the woman. She wrote, "Isaiah has threatened me very many times and is very defiant, disrespectful to me. It is the truth that I am a prisoner in my own home."
Also in the home and a victim of the fire was former NFL Quarterback J.J. Jones. He played for the New York Jets in the 1970's. His best friend, Leonard Elion, told Q13 FOX News that Jones was one of the first three African-American quarterbacks in the NFL. He says Jones was third string when Joe Namath was the quarterback.
Kalebu was arrested Friday night after a Metro bus driver spotted him in Magnuson Park in Seattle. He faced a judge this weekend and is facing charges of murder, attempted murder, rape and burglary for the South Park attack.
On Friday morning, Seattle Police released video time-stamped March 2008 showing a man standing outside a door with a pit bull on a leash. That video came from a 2008 burglary in Auburn. Police sources say that DNA and fingerprints from that scene, matched evidence from the South Park murder site.
Hours after the release of the video, police provided photos calling Kalebu a suspect in the South Park stabbing case.
Kalebu was spotted and finally arrested Friday night at Magnuson Park in Seattle.
Watch Surveillance Video: Different Angle Shows the suspect
The arrest comes five days after the brutal stabbing attack in South Park neighborhood. Stabbing victim, Teresa Butz, was killed and her 36-year-old partner was wounded and is now recovering.
The community gathered together to pay their respects last Thursday but the fear continued to loom until the arrest of the suspect Friday night.
Investigators reveal that Kalebu was brought in for questioning for the University Place fire but was released because of lack of evidence. Pierce County officials viewed the surveillance tape released by police Friday. "When we saw the video of the suspect with the pit bull, all of our hearts down here skipped a beat," said Sgt. Ed Troyer of the Pierce County sheriff's office, which is investigating the fire. "Unfortunately, we didn't have enough to arrest him."
Earlier this month, he was released without bail in King County, pending a trial for allegedly threatening to kill his mother last year. A judge in that case declined to have the suspect locked up six days before the brutal stabbing attack in South Park.
Kalebu is being held on $10 million bail.
Sketch of suspect
