Police hope DNA links suspect to stabbing that killed Lebanon man

A Lebanon home where a man was found dead and a woman was found injured

Lebanon police say they hope to make an arrest soon in the stabbing death of a 73-year-old man and assault on his wife.

Investigators are awaiting results of DNA tests they believe will link a suspect to the Sunday death of Maxwell Foster and the assault of his wife, Sonia, 68, in the early-morning hours at a home in the 500 block of Dicks Street, Lebanon Police Sgt. Ben Phelps said.

"Every day since the incident we've continued to interview potential witnesses and collect additional evidence," Phelps said.

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Lebanon Police said Friday that they hope to meet with the Boone County prosecutor's office on Monday regarding possible charges in the case.

Boone County Prosecutor Todd Meyer told IndyStar his office plans to make a charging decision once the lab results are finished.

Police said Zachariah B. Wright, 19, Lebanon, is a person of interest in the crime. Wright has been held in the Boone County Jail since Sunday for violating his probation on a burglary conviction. Bond is set at $50,000.

Police said Wright remains in the Boone County Jail on that probation violation.

"Mr. Wright has become the focus of this investigation," Lebanon police said in a news release. "However, he has not formally been charged with any crimes related to this investigation at this time."

In a jailhouse interview with Fox59, Wright denied any role in the killing and said he was not a violent person.

“I feel bad for these people," Wright told Fox59. “It may have been a person that looked like me. I wasn’t in that area at that time."

In an interview with the Lebanon Reporter, Police Chief Tyson Warmoth expressed confidence that Wright would eventually be charged in the attack on the Fosters. 

Wright, Warmoth told the paper, is a suspect in another burglary at a home on Pearl Street. Items stolen in that burglary were found at the Foster's home, Warmoth said.

Call IndyStar reporter Vic Ryckaert at (317) 444-2701. Follow him on Twitter: @vicryc.