On Oct. 11, 2023, a homeowner in the 3900 block of Cambridge Avenue in Broomfield stabbed and killed Trenton Hansen, 30, who had entered the home through an open garage door, according to the news release.

“Based on the evidence and a thorough investigation, it is clear that the occupants of the home (in the 3900 block of Cambridge Avenue) are immune from criminal prosecution,” the news release states.

After he entered the house, Hansen told the homeowner and his adult daughter he had a gun and had killed before, then he tied the man and woman to a bedpost using duct tape.

Hansen found the homeowner’s 9mm handgun and fired a round at the wall “to show he was serious,” according to the news release, then he found a large butcher knife and stabbed the mattress.

Hansen then began falling asleep from what the homeowner assumed was drug use because Hansen had mentioned he used and sold fentanyl.

The woman freed herself by chewing through the duct tape and cut the bindings off her father using the knife, according to the news release.

The man then took the knife and stabbed Hansen twice on the left side under his armpit and in his rib area, according to the news release.

Hansen jumped up and wrestled with the homeowner before “collapsing on him,” and the woman called 911.

Hansen died at the scene.

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Deven Jay Dobbins, 30, was arrested on Oct. 28 in Brookfield, Missouri on suspicion of second-degree murder in the fatal stabbings of 58-year-old Otto Washington and 44-year-old Desmond Thomas.

The stabbing occurred in the 11200 and 11300 blocks of East Colfax Avenue at approximately 8 p.m. on Oct. 16 when people passing by told patrol officers there was a man lying in the street nearby.

Additional passersby told officers about the second victim, who was down the street. The victims, later identified as Washington and Thomas, were transported to the hospital, where they died from their injuries.

Detectives identified Dobbins as a suspect and obtained a nationwide warrant for his arrest, Aurora police said in a news release Tuesday.

The department’s fugitive unit found he was in Brookfield, Missouri and contacted local law enforcement for help with a search. The city of 4,000 people is approximately 110 miles northeast of Kansas City.

Brookfield police, Linn County deputies and Missouri state troopers searched for Dobbins, who was located and arrested on Oct. 28.

Dobbins was extradited to Colorado on Nov. 18 and booked into the Arapahoe County Jail on two counts of second-degree murder.

There are no additional suspects in the case, according to Aurora police.

Dobbins was previously arrested on suspicion of three counts of assault and child abuse in October 2022 and pleaded guilty to third-degree assault in Jefferson County District Court in August.

He was sentenced to 91 days in jail and received 91 days of credit for time served, according to court records.

Dobbins is also suspected of second-degree assault in an Oct. 5 incident, according to court records. A warrant for his arrest in that case was issued on Oct. 19.

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The man, identified as 40-year-old Dominic Robinson, was found by officers responding to a report of a stabbing at an apartment complex in the 16000 block of East Easter Circle in south Aurora at approximately 9 p.m. Sunday. When the officers arrived on the scene, they saw him lying unresponsive in the hallway.

Officers performed lifesaving actions on Robinson until medical responders arrived, and he was rushed to a local hospital where he died of his injuries, the release noted.

The suspect, a 13-year-old boy, was at the scene when officers arrived and was taken into custody. He is not being identified due to his age.

The investigation into the incident is ongoing.

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Officers on Friday arrested Gido Izquierdo-Ortega, 64, after he was medically cleared of injuries sustained after police say he attacked the stabbing victim on Thursday near the intersection of Park Avenue West and Lawrence Street in Lower Downtown.

Izquierdo-Ortega was injured when the group of migrants he was harassing with a knife defended themselves by throwing objects at him, according to a news release. While initial reports indicated a second person was stabbed, no such victim has been found, police said.

According to a probable cause statement, police responded to the scene at 10:50 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day on a report of a stabbing.

Officers who arrived on the scene found the victim unresponsive. He was taken to Denver Health Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 11:26 a.m. The Office of the Medical Examiner has not identified the victim.

Izquierdo-Ortega was also taken to the hospital for “possible injuries to the head,” according to the statement.

Detectives who reviewed a witness’s cellphone video and nearby surveillance footage saw Izquierdo-Ortega “menacing multiple people with the knife” he pulled from a bag. People nearby waved him away and used a stick to maintain distance from him.

The video shows the victim crossing a street and approaching Izquierdo-Ortega from behind and Izquierdo-Ortega turning and stabbing him in the chest, according to the probable cause statement. Several bystanders then threw several items, including a concrete block, at the suspect, knocking him unconscious.

An unidentified witness told detectives that Izquierdo-Ortega was yelling at the group she was in because they were immigrants from Venezuela. She also told police the victim did not do anything to provoke the suspect before he was stabbed and he walked away and collapsed after the suspect attacked him.

Other unnamed witnesses also told detectives that Izquierdo-Ortega and three other men threatened people in the migrant encampment Wednesday night and that when the suspect returned Thursday morning, one person in the camp ran up and kicked him in the butt and another hit him in the face, which is when he pulled out the knife and began chasing people with it, according to the statement. The witnesses said it appeared the victim was trying to defuse the situation before he was stabbed.

The crime scene isn’t near any of the city’s four migrant shelters.

The police are asking anyone with information to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-STOP(7867) as the investigation continues.

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Denver police responded to reports of a stabbing at the school in the 600 block of South Monaco Parkway, where they found a student with injuries to their left arm and hand, according to a post on X at 3:39 p.m. The student’s injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.

ALERT: #DPD is investigating a stabbing in the 600 block of S. Monaco. One victim located, condition unknown. One suspect in custody. Investigation is ongoing. Updates will be posted to this thread when made available. #Denver pic.twitter.com/GlEDhyF7CP

— Denver Police Dept. (@DenverPolice) November 3, 2023

The stabbing did not occur inside the school but on school grounds, according to Denver police. One person was arrested, but the department could not immediately confirm if the suspect was also a student.

This is a developing story and may be updated.

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Officers responded to the 12100 block of Zuni Street on reports of a woman who had barricaded herself in her apartment, according to police.

According to Denver7, the woman stabbed an Adams County sheriff’s deputy who was serving an eviction notice and then barricaded herself.

The deputy was transported to a local hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.

Police negotiators and mental health co-responders tried for several hours to get the woman to come out of the apartment, but SWAT officers eventually entered the apartment and took the woman into custody. She was transported to a local hospital with self-inflicted injuries, according to police.

The woman was released from the hospital Tuesday and arrested for assault and failure or refusal to leave a premise.

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Two Lafayette police officers who shot a man while he was trying to stab his father were justified in using potentially deadly force in the Oct. 22 incident, according to a decision issued by 20th Judicial District Attorney Michael Dougherty on Thursday.

Lafayette Police Department Cpl. Leonard Fazio and Officer Houston Lair responded to a home in the 2400 block of Waneka Lake Trail in the early hours of Oct. 22 to find a man trying to stab his father with two kitchen knives in the driveway, according to the DA’s report.

Home surveillance video obtained during the investigation shows the 22-year-old man arrived at his father’s house at 2:30 a.m. because he wanted to access the gun safe in the garage.

When the man’s father wouldn’t give him access to the safe, he pushed his father down the stairs.

While the man’s father called 911 to report his son was having a psychotic episode, the man retrieved two kitchen knives from a butcher block, told his father he needed to kill himself and began stabbing himself in the leg, according to the report.

The man’s father was injured while trying to stop him from stabbing himself. The father ran outside, and the man ran after him.

Fazio and Lair arrived at the scene and told the man to drop the knives, at which point he looked toward the patrol vehicle and then charged at his father and tried to slash him, according to the decision letter.

Fazio and Lair fired five shots at the man nine seconds after arriving at the scene. After he was shot by the officers, the man started stabbing himself and telling officers to shoot him in the head. The officers shocked him with a stun gun to get him to stop stabbing himself, according to the report.

Both the man and his father were seriously injured in the incident.

Fazio and Lair were justified in using potentially deadly force under Colorado law because they had a reasonable belief the man was an imminent danger to his father and to the officers, according to the decision letter.

Two Lafayette police officers were placed on administrative leave Sunday after shooting a suspect allegedly involved in an attempted murder earlier that morning.

Around 2:45 a.m. Sunday, officers responded to reports of a disturbance involving a father and a son in the 2400 block of Waneka Lake Trail in Lafayette.

When officers arrived on the scene, they found the adult, male son actively stabbing his father with a knife, according to a Sunday news release from the Lafayette Police Department.

Lafayette officers attempted to stop the suspect but, when they were unable to, two officers shot the man, the release stated.

Paramedics transported both the father and son to the hospital. The police officers were not injured in the incident.

The two officers who fired their weapons were placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into their use of force, following protocol, Sunday’s release stated.

The Boulder County Investigation Team will investigate the officers’ use of force. The multi-agency team is designed to investigate incidents where officers use deadly, or potentially deadly, force against a person while on-duty.

No names have been released at this time.

This is a developing story and will be updated. 

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Officers were in the 11200 block of East Colfax Avenue at 8 p.m. Monday when a passerby told them a man was lying in the street nearby at East Colfax Avenue and Lima Street.

Officers performed life-saving measures and the man, 44-year-old Desmond Thomas, was transported to a local hospital, where he later died from his injuries.

While responding to the scene, additional officers learned of a second stabbing victim in the 11300 block of East Colfax Avenue who was unconscious and unresponsive, according to the Aurora Police Department. Officers also attempted to save the victim, 58-year-old Otto Washington.

Washington was transported to a local hospital, where he later died from his injuries.

Police interviewed two people of interest in the case Tuesday. One was released and the second was arrested on unrelated arrest warrants.

No arrests have been made in the case. Anyone with information can contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.

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The boy was arrested shortly after officers responded to the school at 5130 Durham Court at 1:53 p.m. Oct. 5 on a report of a stabbing, Denver police spokesperson Doug Schepman said at the time.

The injured student was taken to a hospital in stable condition.

The 12-year-old was charged as an “aggravated juvenile offender” and “violent juvenile offender” with attempted murder, assault, bias-motivated crime, weapons possession on school grounds and interference with school-impeding staff, Denver DA spokesperson Matthew Jablow said in an email.

Jablow did not answer what led prosecutors to believe this was a bias-motivated crime.

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Officers responded to a report of a stabbing at 4685 N. Quebec St. at approximately 6:30 p.m. and found two teenagers and a man injured. The three victims were transported to a local hospital and are expected to survive their injuries, Denver police said Wednesday. The man was in critical condition when he was transported to the hospital.

Initial information shows there was a disturbance involving several people that escalated to the stabbings, according to police. The incident is under investigation, though police believe everyone involved is accounted for and it was an isolated incident.

No arrests have been made in the incident.

Denver City Council approved a $5.8 million lease with Quebec Hospitality, LLC in February to provide 138 rooms at the Comfort Inn as a shelter for families experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alert: #DPD is investigating a stabbing in the 4600 block of Quebec St. Three victims were transported to a local hospital. Extent of injuries unknown at this time. Investigation is ongoing and officers are working to develop suspect information. #Denver. pic.twitter.com/dYvavM20Hs

— Denver Police Dept. (@DenverPolice) October 11, 2023

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