Police in Denver have arrested the suspect wanted in a series of stabbings , some of them deadly, near the 16th Street Mall over the weekend. The arrest of Elijah D. Caudill followed the latest stabbing late Sunday night.
Caudill, 24, appeared in a Denver courtroom on Monday morning. He was being held without bond on investigation of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder.
The first three stabbings happened along 16th Street between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday, according to investigators.
The first stabbing that happened was initially reported at approximately 6:20 p.m. Saturday after the victim self-transported to the hospital. This stabbing happened as the man was leaving work in the area of 16th Street and Tremont Street at about 5:10 p.m. Saturday. The adult male victim was slashed in the face.
According to police, the victim said he was walking along the 16th Street Mall when a male ran up behind him, slashed him in the face and then ran away. The victim described the suspect as a while male in his 20s, wearing a black hat, black pants, and a blue sweatshirt.
Just minutes after the first attack, there was a reported stabbing in the area of 16th Street and California St. about 5:20 p.m. Saturday. The adult female victim was stabbed in the throat and rushed to the hospital where she died Sunday morning. The woman was an American Airlines flight attendant in Denver on a layover. After her death, American Airlines has stated that crews laying over “will be temporarily relocated from downtown Denver to a hotel near the Denver airport.”…