On the Monday after an attacker on the 16th Street Mall stabbed four strangers — killing two — Denver Mayor Mike Johnston stood on the mall and declared that the city was still safe. The random acts of violence that claimed two lives on the pedestrian shopping street Johnston calls “Denver’s living room” over the weekend are “exceedingly rare,

In 2021, the man accused in the deadly 16th Street stabbings reportedly brandished a knife at an Adams Co. property manager and said he would "cut [his]... throat," according to an arrest affidavit.

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.