A 54-year-old man was stabbed and a storage business set ablaze this afternoon in Weld County, setting off an all-day standoff between SWAT officers and an unknown suspect.
Hostage negotiators were still trying to establish communications with the suspect at a Keenesburg storage complex at 10 p.m. The stabbing occurred at about 1:30 p.m., authorities said.
The man who was stabbed has not been named. He was airlifted to North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley with a serious wound to his stomach, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
The sheriff’s department said investigators did not yet know the relationship between the injured man and his assailant.
Public records identify the business as the I-76 RV & Boat Inside Storage at 28037 Weld County Road 18 near the interstate in Keenesburg.
The business provides storage for cars, motorhomes, boats and other recreational vehicles.
The blaze took more than two hours to contain. Propane tanks inside the storage building exploded into fire balls periodically, the Sheriff’s Department said.
