Denver police are trying to determine a motive behind a series of stabbings in which a 24-year-old man randomly attacked four people near the 16th Street Mall over the weekend, killing two of them.
After spotting him running downtown with a knife in his hand Sunday night, officers arrested Elijah Caudill on Sunday on suspicion of two counts of first-degree murder, including an at-risk elder, and two counts of attempted first-degree murder, the Denver police department said Monday.
Caudill’s violent rampage included three stabbings in the span of 42 minutes Saturday, and then a fourth victim Sunday, police said. All stabbings occurred within a few city blocks.
A man and a woman were killed, another man was brought to the hospital with injuries that were not life threatening and a fourth man was brought to the hospital with serious injuries, but is expected to survive, the department said.
Police say Caudill stabbed the first person at about 5:12 p.m. Saturday near 16th Street and Tremont Place, before fatally stabbing a woman five minutes later three blocks away at 16th and California streets. At about 5:54 p.m. police say he stabbed a man at 16th and Lawrence streets.
On Sunday, at about 8:06 p.m., police say Caudill stabbed a fourth person at 16th and Wynkoop streets.
One of the victims was identified as Celinda Levno, a Phoenix-based flight attendant who was in Denver on a layover when she was killed, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants said in a statement.
American Airlines, which employed Levno for the past 36 years, called the attack “senseless,” in a statement Sunday night.
Investigators are still trying to determine what drove the attacks. There does not seem to be a connection between Caudill and the victims, according to police.
Caudill was arrested shortly before police learned of the fourth victim.
Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas and Mayor Mike Johnston are expected to hold a news conference at 5 p.m. Monday to provide updates on the attacks.
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