Kristopher T. Amos spent much of his summer a free man, despite being a suspect in a June stabbing that eventually killed a woman this week. 
 
 Amos, a 29-year-old registered sex offender, was arrested by Columbus police Wednesday morning, just hours after Candy Arthurs succumbed to the knife wound that police say Amos inflicted. 
 
 But the timing of Arthurs' death and Amos' arrest — both occurring 41 days after the June 23 attack — is a coincidence, according to Sgt. Rich Weiner, spokesman for the Columbus Division of Police. 
 
 For six weeks, police had searched "tirelessly" for Arthurs' attacker, Weiner said. On July 20, Amos was charged with two counts of felonious assault in the attack and a warrant was issued for his arrest. But police couldn't find him. 
 
 "We were actively looking for him ... but we were not asking the public to (help) because we feared that he might flee," Weiner said. 
 
 Though Amos was arrested the day Arthurs died, it wasn't the new murder charge that finally put him behind bars, Weiner said. 
 
 He said that both charges are felonies, and police take all felony charges seriously. 
 
 "We don't prioritize individual cases," Weiner said. "They are all a priority." 
 
 Arthurs' death and Amos' criminal history have cast a national spotlight on the case, and made their Hilltop neighbors question why they didn't know a sex offender lived there. 
 
 They also didn't know Arthurs had been stabbed, but when she died this week, word began to spread. And neighbors are angry. 
 
 Analese Petruskevich lives with her boyfriend in the 200 block of North Wayne Avenue, two doors down from Amos' house. Their 5-year-old son, Dylan, plays outside. 
 
 He's allowed to go to the fire hydrant two houses down on the right, or the fence two houses down on the left. The fence connects to Amos' house, and Petruskevich is outraged. 
 
 "There's so many kids here," she said. "It's nothing but kids." 
 
 To those concerns, Weiner emphasized that sex-offender databases are public and easily accessible online. 
 
 Amos, who was convicted and sentenced to a year in prison for child enticement in Hocking County in 2010 and 18 months in prison in Richland County in 2013 for failing to register as a sex offender there, had approached the 45-year-old Arthurs and her two young grandchildren at her daughter's home on the Hilltop that evening in June. Amos had lost his drone, he told them, and needed a search crew. They willingly agreed to help. 
 
 Shortly after they began the search, Amos led the three into an alley. It's not clear what happened next, but police say Arthurs was stabbed by Amos with a large knife as she tried to protect her grandchildren from him. Arthurs was stabbed in the heart; grandson Jeremy Mullins, 7, survived a stab wound in the shoulder. Her granddaughter, Kourtnee Mullins, 8, wasn't injured. 
 
 Arthurs' daughter, Amanda Gibson, remembers talking with Amos from her front porch that night while her kids put on their shoes to go with him. 
 
 Gibson, 27, decided to stay back at the North Oakley Avenue house. About 10 minutes after they had left, Gibson heard screaming. Her family ran back to the house, and Arthurs, bleeding heavily from her chest, collapsed at the top of the stairs. 
 
 Arthurs died Wednesday at Mount Carmel West after undergoing surgery and being in a coma. 
 
 On the night of the stabbing, police showed Gibson a photo lineup of six men, all sex offenders in the neighborhood, Gibson said. 
 
 She recognized Amos. 
 
 "I picked his picture first," she said. "You know when you get that feeling? I knew it was him." But she faltered because another man resembled the one that had stood in her yard, and she couldn't say for sure. The same happened with a neighbor who reviewed the pictures for police. 
 
 Gibson's son, however, didn't hesitate. Police told Gibson that her boy's "finger went right to him." 
 
 Still, police said it wasn't enough to charge the man. "They said they couldn't take his word for it — he's just a 7-year-old," Gibson said. They needed more evidence. 
 
 Amos eventually was arrested the day Gibson's mother died — the day he was charged with murder. He was arrested at his workplace on Worthington Road. 
 
 Amos, who is in the Franklin County jail, is scheduled to appear at a preliminary hearing Aug. 12. 
 
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 A woman was killed protecting her grandchildren from a convicted child predator. Her daughter witnessed the event."She always said she would die for them and that's exactly what she did," Amanda Gibson said of her mother, Candy Arthurs. "She's definitely a hero. It's hard because she lost her life but she saved both of my kids' lives that night."Arthurs was stabbed in the chest on June 23 and died five weeks later due to her injuries.On that night, police say Kristopher Amos asked Arthurs' grandchildren to help him look for his missing drone in the alley.Arthurs confronted Amos when she learned her grandchildren were with him. Police say that's when Amos pulled out a knife and stabbed her and her 7-year-old grandson."My son and my daughter ran into the house and screamed 'call 911!'" Gibson said.Gibson said her mother collapsed at the front door. When Gibson asked her who attacked her and Arthurs said it was the man in the alley.Amos had lived in the neighborhood for years, but neighbors said they weren't aware that he is a sex offender. He was convicted in 2010 of enticing children in a YMCA shower.The reason why neighbors were not alerted to Amos' status is due to the fact Tier 1 offenders are not subject to community notification. WBNS reports that neighbors say they should have been aware of his status due to the amount of children in the neighborhood.Meanwhile, Gibson has a message for the man who took her mother's life."I hope he rots in jail and that he never sees the light of day again and that he knows how it feels to lose his life," she said.Gibson said her 8-year old daughter, who was also in the alley when the attack happened, was not injured. She added that her 7-year-old son who was stabbed has recovered physically, but not emotionally."He's very traumatized," she said. "We're trying to get him in counseling now because he won't come out at night. If I come walking through the house at night he'll come and grab and be right on my side."Amos is now facing one count of murder and two counts felonious assault. On Thursday, a judge set his bond at $2.5 million.The family has set up a GoFundMe page to pay for Arthurs' medical bills and funeral arrangement. 

 COLUMBUS (WCMH) –A Columbus man is in custody for murder after allegedly stabbing a woman and child with a large knife. 
 
 It happened on June 23 in an alley behind the 200 block of Oakley Avenue. 
 
 According to Columbus police, Kristopher T. Amos, 29, approached a group of children and asked them for help finding his lost drone. 
 
 Amanda Gibson says her mother, Candy Arthurs, 45, also offered to help look for the drone. Gibson says a few minutes later, her 7-year-old son came running home with a stab wound to his shoulder. Then Arthurs staggered back to the home with a stab wound to her chest. 
 
 Gibson says her 8-year-old daughter could not really explain what happened. 
 
 “She says they were just walking down the alley just looking and the next thing they know she’s got my mom in her face pushing her and telling her to run and that’s all she could tell me,” Gibson said. 
 
 Police believe it was Amos who pulled out a large knife and stabbed Arthurs and the 7-year-old. The child was treated at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and is expected to fully recover. 
 
 Arthurs was taken to Mount Carmel West Hospital where she died early Wednesday morning. 
 
 Amos is a registered sex offender for a 2010 conviction for child enticement. He was arrested Wednesday morning on charges of murder and felonious assault. 
 
 Several children in the neighborhood told NBC4 they found the drone the next day in the backyard of a home near where the stabbing occurred.
– Amanda Gibson's mother always told her she would die for her grandchildren. "That's exactly what she did," Gibson says. Police say Kristopher Amos, who lives down the street from Gibson in Columbus, Ohio, asked Candy Arthurs and her two grandchildren to help him find a missing drone around 10pm on June 23, and the group went searching down an alley. Ten minutes later, Gibson says she heard screams. Police say Amos, a 29-year-old registered sex offender, stabbed Arthurs in the heart as she tried to protect the children from him, reports the Columbus Dispatch. Bleeding heavily, Arthurs "pushed the children to safety," then followed them home, collapsing on the front step, police say. "She's definitely a hero," Gibson tells ABC 7. "She saved both of my kids' lives that night." Gibson says her 7-year-old son has recovered from a stab wound to the shoulder but is still "traumatized." Arthurs, 45, died of her injuries Wednesday, the same day Amos was arrested. Neighbors question why it took so long, but police say Amos' resemblance to another sex offender living nearby initially complicated the case, per the Dispatch. Neighbors also question why Amos' two convictions of child enticement with a sexual motivation didn't require the community to be notified of his sex offender status. NBC 4 reports children found a drone near the alley a day after the attack, but police say Amos' story was only a ruse. He's charged with murder, with his bond set at $2.5 million. (This woman allegedly let a sex offender tattoo her young kids.)