6 people injured in string of Denver shootings, stabbings overnight

Six people were injured in a string of three shootings and two stabbings reported Saturday night and early Sunday morning in Denver.

Denver police responded to shootings and stabbings in the city’s Civic Center, Union Station, Regis, East Colfax and Baker neighborhoods, Denver Police Department said in posts on X between 10:30 p.m. Saturday and early Sunday morning.

The incidents are not believed to be connected, 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 at 10:33 p.m. in a post on X. The man’s injuries are not life-threatening.

A second man was injured in a stabbing in the 2200 block of 19th Street near Union Station, Denver police said at 1:16 a.m. His injuries are not believed to be 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 one man with non-life-threatening injuries, McCandless said.

A man and a woman were injured in 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.

Police were called to a third shooting in the 300 block of North Santa Fe Drive in the city’s Baker neighborhood around 3:44 a.m., McCandless said. A boy was injured, but the extent of his injuries was 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 string of violence across metro Denver this weekend, including seven people killed and 13 injured in shootings and stabbings.

Denver police are investigating a man’s stabbing death as a homicide after he was found in the intersection of 15th Street and Glenarm Place, department officials said late Friday night.

Aurora police are investigating two overnight shootings that killed one person and injured three others, and Commerce City police responded to a string of weekend shootings that have killed five people and injured at least one since Friday night.

And two 17-year-olds and one 18-year-old were injured after a shooting at a party near the University of Colorado Boulder on Friday night, according to Boulder police.

This is a developing story and may be updated.

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