More information could be released today about a woman found dying in a pool of blood in the hallway of a Denver assisted-living home early Thursday, once authorities have talked to her family and an autopsy is completed.
Her name has not been released, nor has information about how she died or who might have attacked her.
A neighbor of the group home, Our House II, at 2420 W. Wesley Ave., said a resident she knows only as Carlos banged on her door at 2 a.m. Thursday.
Frantic, he told her, “She’s dead, she’s not waking up,’ ” Anita Rich said.
Rich ran to the facility and saw the woman in the hallway.
“There was blood everywhere,” she said.
While investigators weren’t yet naming a suspect or saying what might have led to the fatal assault Thursday, police spokesman Sonny Jackson said they don’t think the attack was random.
“This appears to be an isolated incident, and she, unfortunately, was the target of this violent attack,” he said.
Though the incident was initially characterized as a stabbing, the cause of death has not yet been determined, and Jackson said it was too early to say whether the victim was stabbed with a knife or bludgeoned with some other object.
“That’s what the medical examiner will determine,” he said.
Rich said that despite the enormous amount of blood surrounding the woman, there were no obvious, specific wounds. The woman still had a pulse when found.
Carlos was on the phone with paramedics when she took the phone, thinking, “What do I do? How can I help her?”
Several online sources identify Our House II as an assisted-living facility. A manager declined to comment.
