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Six people injured in series of shootings and stabbings in Denver
Six people were injured in a series of three shootings and two stabbings reported in Denver on Saturday evening and early Sunday morning.
Denver police responded to shootings and stabbings in the Civic Center, Union Station, Regis, East Colfax and Baker neighborhoods, Denver police said in messages on X between 10:30 p.m. Saturday and early Sunday morning.
The incidents are not believed to be related, spokesperson Katherine McCandless said Sunday afternoon.
One man was injured in a stabbing at 1300 N. Speer Blvd. in the Civic Center/Golden Triangle neighborhood, police said in a post on X at 10:33 p.m. The man’s injuries are not life-threatening.
A second man was injured a stabbing in the 2200 block of 19th Street near Union StationDenver police said at 1:16 a.m. that his injuries were not life-threatening.
Officers responded to a shooting near Interstate 70 and North Tennyson Street in Denver’s Regis neighborhood at 2:52 a.m. and found a man with non-life-threatening injuries, McCandless said.
A man and a woman were injured a second shooting near East Colfax Avenue and North Xanthia Street around 3:09 a.m., McCandless said. The extent of their injuries is unknown.
The police were called a third shooting in the 300 block of North Santa Fe Drive in the city’s Baker section around 3:44 a.m., McCandless said. A boy was injured, but the extent of his injuries is unknown.
Denver police are working to develop suspect information in all five incidents, according to department officials.
At least 20 people were killed or injured in a series of violence in metro Denver this weekend, including seven deaths and 13 injuries in shootings and stabbings.
Denver police are investigating the stabbing death of a man as a homicide after he was found at the intersection of 15th Street and Glenarm Place, department officials said late Friday night.
Aurora police are investigating two overnight shootings that left one person dead and three others injured, and Commerce City police responded to a series of weekend shootings that have left five people dead and at least one injured since Friday evening.
And two 17-year-olds and an 18-year-old were injured Friday evening after a shooting at a party near the University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder police said.
This is a developing story and may be updated.
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