Elijah Caudill (mugshot left) is in custody for investigations of first-degree murder, first-degree murder of an at-risk elder, and two counts of attempted first-degree murder. Denver Police Department
Downtown Denver's 16th Street Mall turned into a crime scene over the weekend when a knife-wielding assailant stabbed four people seemingly at random, killing two.
Police say three of the victims were attacked in separate assaults on Saturday, January 11, between 5 and 6 p.m., along the mall at Tremont, California and Lawrence streets. The fourth victim was stabbed just after 8 p.m. on Sunday at 16th and Wynkoop streets. Two of the victims died from their injuries: Celinda Levno, a 71-year-old Arizona flight attendant who was in Denver for a layover, and an unidentified adult man.
Elijah Caudill, 24, was arrested in connection to the stabbings on Sunday; police say they chased him down after he allegedly attacked the fourth victim. Caudill is a Colorado native previously arrested for unlawful sexual contact in 2024, felony theft and property damage in 2023, and assault in 2022 and 2021, according to court records. He was last released from jail in November.
The senseless murders have shaken downtown Denver, but they're far from the first acts of violence committed on the 16th Street Mall.
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