Colorado Springs Police Department
Dennie Weaver 
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A 54-year-old Colorado Springs woman had been beaten and stabbed, authorities said Monday.
body was found Thursday by officers called out to conduct a welfare check on the 900 block of Mt. Werner Circle.
Police say the El Paso County coroner’s office ruled her death a homicide. Authorities said she had “traumatic” injuries.
that investigators wrote in an arrest affidavit that Hampton possibly had been beaten with a small fire extinguisher.
Hampton’s son, 24-year-old Dennie Duece Weaver, 24, was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder in the case. He is being held without bond at the El Paso County jail, records show.
