4 injured in stabbings across Denver this week
Four people were injured and two were arrested in separate stabbings across Denver on Monday and Tuesday, according to the police department.
Denver officers responded to the first stabbing in the 5100 block of Leetsdale Drive at about 12:15 a.m. Monday, police said. That’s on the western edge of Denver’s Washington Virginia Vale neighborhood, near the Atrii Apartments.
Officers responded to a second stabbing about eight hours later at 8:34 a.m. in the 1100 block of East 18th Avenue, on the edge of Denver’s City Park West neighborhood, and a third stabbing in the 3200 block of Parker Road at 12:44 p.m., according to an unidentified police department spokesperson.
The block, on the edge of Aurora and Denver, “falls just inside DPD jurisdiction,” the spokesperson said in an email to The Denver Post.
A fourth stabbing was reported Tuesday afternoon near East Evans Avenue and South Josephine Street, north of the University of Denver, according to the city’s police department. Denver police later said the victim’s injuries appeared to be self-inflicted.
In each of the four stabbings, paramedics took one person to the hospital. Police said the victims in the first two stabbings are expected to survive, but the extent of the victims’ injuries in the Parker Road stabbing and the stabbing near DU is unknown.
A 30-year-old white woman was arrested on suspicion of second-degree assault in the Leetsdale Drive attack, and a 35-year-old white man was arrested on the same charge in the East 18th Avenue stabbing, according to jail records. No suspects have been identified or arrests made in the other stabbing, police said Tuesday morning.
This is a developing story and may be updated.
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