DENVER — Police in Denver introduced Monday an arrest in reference to a person’s homicide whose physique was discovered days after he was stabbed to demise.
Anissa Johnson, 27, was arrested Friday on expenses of first-degree homicide.
Johnson is accused within the stabbing demise of a 64-year-old man whose physique was present in his condominium, situated within the 1200 block of North Washington Road, a couple of week after his demise.
The sufferer, whose id has but to be launched, was stabbed 11 occasions in his again and located lifeless on Jan. 2 after a involved caller requested police to carry out a welfare test at his residence, in keeping with the arrest affidavit.
The caller was apprehensive as a result of nobody was in a position to get ahold of the sufferer since round Christmas, the affidavit learn.
Police famous within the affidavit that the person was discovered mendacity on his knees and chest contained in the condominium, which confirmed indicators {that a} battle had occurred.
Police mentioned surveillance video confirmed Johnson leaving the condominium at 12:24 a.m. on Christmas Eve with what seems to be a knife.
It’s unclear if the sufferer and the suspect had been recognized to one another. A attainable motive for the homicide was not disclosed within the affidavit.
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