The wife, Lindsey Barnett, worked as an art teacher in Jeffco Public Schools, officials confirmed Tuesday.

Patrick “Ted” Barnett called Lakewood police to report he found his wife not breathing and unresponsive and told officers who responded to their home in the 1700 block of South Welch Circle shortly after 6 a.m. Thursday morning that Lindsey Barnett had cut her throat, according to his arrest affidavit.

First responders found Lindsey Barnett’s body in the shower, with a large gash along her neck and a 5-inch knife near her, investigators wrote in the affidavit. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators also found evidence suggesting the woman was injured in her bedroom and moved to the bathroom, according to the affidavit.

Ted Barnett told Lakewood police officers that he had last seen his wife between 10 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, after fighting about that night¶¶Òőap dinner, the affidavit stated. He told police that they had been sleeping in separate bedrooms because of their “relationship issues.”

He said he woke up at about 5:30 a.m. Thursday and went to check on his wife and their two children, according to the affidavit. That’s when he claimed to have found her body.

While Ted Barnett initially claimed that there was no infidelity on his or Lindsey Barnett’s part, a woman claiming to be his girlfriend called dispatchers at 2:46 p.m. Thursday to request a welfare check on the man, police said, because they hadn’t spoken since 11 p.m. Wednesday.

She said Ted Barnett had told her he was divorcing his wife, and that she had no idea Lindsey Barnett was still involved in his life.

Ted Barnett then changed his story, claiming his wife knew about that relationship and was fine with it, but that they hadn’t told anyone else, according to the affidavit.

He had several unexplained injuries that were consistent with defensive wounds and dried blood on his neck and behind his ear, police said in the affidavit. Investigators said Lindsey Barnett also had unexplained bruises.

“When told Lindsey died in bed and did not get to the shower on her own, Ted repeated that was where he found her,” investigators wrote in the affidavit. “He claimed to have no knowledge of what happened.”

Lindsey Barnett worked as an art teacher at Hutchinson and Westgate elementary schools in Jefferson County, according to a letter shared with families by school district officials. She was hired at the schools in August 2025, a spokesperson for the school district said.

“Lindsey was a joy to have in our school. She brought a deep passion for teaching art, a sweet soul, and an extraordinary dedication to our students,” Hutchinson Elementary Principal DeAnn Hoffman wrote in the letter.

Ted Barnett was next scheduled to appear in court on Friday for a status conference. As of Monday, he had not yet been charged in his wife’s death.

This is a developing story and may be updated.

Alexei Munive-Rodriguez was arrested in connection with the Northglenn homicide, according to a . A news release from the police department did not specify the charges under investigation, and Munive-Rodriguez did not yet appear in court records on Sunday.

Northglenn officers responded to a stabbing in the 10500 block of Irma Drive shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, police said in the release. When they arrived, officers found one person had been stabbed to death.

The victim will be identified by the Adams County Coroner’s Office.

Investigators quickly identified Munive-Rodriguez as a suspect and issued a statewide alert to law enforcement agencies, police said in the release. A Lincoln County sheriff’s deputy attempted to stop a car “associated with the Northglenn homicide investigation” at an unspecified time, but the driver fled, police said.

The driver crashed near Lamar, more than 200 miles southeast of Northglenn, and ran from the vehicle, police said.

Lamar police officers later found Munive-Rodriguez hiding in a field and arrested him, Northglenn police officials said on Sunday.

Law enforcement will transfer the man back to Adams County, where he will be held pending the ongoing investigation and criminal proceedings, police said.

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The Denver Police Department in the 5100 block of Sherman Street at 6:22 p.m. Saturday.

At that time, police had identified four stabbing victims who were all expected to survive, according to the post. Information on the extent of their injuries and whether any victims were taken to the hospital was not available.

Investigators arrested a suspect in the stabbing, , but that suspect has not been publicly identified. Police did not specify the charges under investigation.

Additional information about the incident was not immediately available.

This is a developing story and may be updated.

Denver police officers responded to the stabbing in the 1300 block of Lowell Boulevard, between West 13th Avenue and West 14th Avenue, at 2:24 p.m. Sunday, a spokesperson for the department said.

Paramedics took three people to the hospital, where one woman later died, police said in a 6:26 p.m. update. The Denver Office of the Medical Examiner identified the victim as Sandra Vigil, 63.

Robert Tafoya was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault, according to . As of Sunday afternoon, he was being held in Denver’s Downtown Detention Center.

The block where the stabbing happened is in Denver’s West Colfax neighborhood neighborhood, near the Lakewood Gulch.

Police said Tafoya and the victims knew each other, but did not specify the nature of their relationship.

Additional information about the stabbing was not immediately available on Sunday.

This is a developing story and may be updated.

Updated 2:33 p.m. Aug. 19, 2026: This story was updated to include the identity of the woman killed. 

Matthew Omara stabbed two women in the 10100 block of East Harvard Avenue just before 8 a.m. on Dec. 7, 2022. Taylor Trevino, 20, died from her injuries at the scene and the second victim, 56-year-old Christina Hardin, died at the hospital, according to the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner.

Shortly after, police responded to reports of a man attacking workers in the 2500 block of South Dayton Way, just blocks away from the double stabbing. When officers arrived, they found Omara being held down by a group of construction workers.

Omara was arrested and later connected to the stabbings, police said.

The Denver jury convicted Omara on two counts of first-degree murder after deliberation and one count of second-degree assault, according to court records. He faces life in prison without parole when he is sentenced on July 24.

Ricky Roybal-Smith, 38, pleaded guilty on Thursday to second-degree murder and DUI in the Denver case, a deal that dismissed the original first-degree murder charge, according to court records. Denver District Court Judge Andrew Luxen sentenced Roybal-Smith to 56 years in prison during the disposition hearing, which will run concurrently with his other prison sentence, court records show.

“In just over two days in metro Denver, Ricky Roybal-Smith murdered three men in cold blood,” . “Today’s sentence, alongside severe sentences in Adams County, ensures that Roybal-Smith will spend the rest of his life in prison, which is where he belongs given his horrific and senseless crimes.”

Roybal-Smith strangled his cellmate, Vincent Chacon, in Denver’s Downtown Detention Center after being arrested in connection with a hit-and-run on June 30, 2025, police said. He was already in custody there when Aurora police linked him to the two fatal stabbings that happened on June 29, 2025.

The Aurora victims, 27‑year‑old Jesse Shafer and 61‑year‑old Scott Davenport, were both found dead with dozens of stab wounds, police said.

Roybal-Smith took a deal and pleaded guilty in March to two counts of second-degree murder in the stabbings, which dropped two charges of first-degree murder from his case, according to court records. Adams County District Court Judge Brett Martin sentenced Roybal-Smith to 40 years in prison for each of the men’s deaths, court records show.

Aurora police responded to the complex in the 14000 block of East Stanford Circle at 3:30 p.m. after receiving a call from Aurora Mental Health about a man experiencing a mental health crisis, Chief Todd Chamberlain said in a briefing Thursday evening.

A mental health clinician responded to the scene alongside police and talked with the man by phone. The man was threatening to kill himself and others and wanted to kill or be killed by police officers, Chamberlain said.

The man refused to continue talking with the crisis response team after about 25 minutes. When the clinician tried to talk to him through a window, the man was seen holding a large butcher knife to his neck.

A group of officers was staged nearby when the man suddenly burst out of the apartment, charged one of the officers and repeatedly stabbed him in the head with the butcher knife, Chamberlain said.

The stabbing was so forceful that the tip of the knife broke off inside the officer’s head, Chamberlain said, but the officer was able to fire his gun and shoot the man during the attack.

Other officers on scene tried to use less-lethal force, including a Taser, to stop the man as the stabbing unfolded in a matter of seconds, the chief said.

Paramedics took the officer to a hospital, where he was in surgery Thursday evening. The knife-wielding man was taken to a hospital by ambulance and pronounced dead.

The man killed will be identified by the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office.

The injured officer joined the Aurora Police Department in 2002, according to a news release from the department. He is also a canine handler and has been assigned to the department’s police dog unit since 2012. His dog sustained minor injuries in the Thursday incident but is expected to recover.

“I thank God that our officer is not dead,” Chamberlain said. “I thank God that our officer is in surgery, and I’m so thankful that he survived this.”

The man had a history of mental health issues, including suicidal ideation, and it appears police had responded to that address at least one time before Thursday, Chamberlain said.

“The Aurora Police Department, our patrol assets, our clinicians and our crisis response team did everything we could possibly do to resolve this without the incredibly tragic conclusion,” Chamberlain said.

The 18th Judicial Critical Incident Response Team is leading the investigation into the police shooting. The Aurora Police Department will also conduct an administrative review of the incident.

Thornton officers responded to a “bleeding and unresponsive” man at an , 8700 Grant St., just before 11 p.m. on March 25, according to an arrest affidavit. The parking lot was empty when officers arrived, aside from the injured man, but several people were spotted walking on a nearby bridge that connected the east and west RTD parking lots, the affidavit stated.

Paramedics took the man, identified in the affidavit as 29-year-old Stephen Rivas, to the hospital, where he died from a stab wound to the neck, police said. His brother, 25-year-old Zamien Rivas, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in his death, Adams County court records show.

The woman who called 911 told investigators that she heard the two brothers arguing in the parking lot about Stephen Rivas claiming to be a Crips gang member, according to the affidavit.

She called the police when she saw the older brother collapsed on the ground, but didn’t see what caused his injury, police said.

One man said he saw a man he believed to be Zamien Rivas collapse over Stephen Rivas’ body in the parking lot after the fight, yelling “no Stevie” and “don’t die Stevie,” the affidavit stated. Zamien Rivas and an unidentified girl ran from the parking lot to the RTD bus terminal when they heard police sirens, leaving Stephen’s body behind, the man told police.

The witness and his girlfriend ended up on the same bus as the couple who ran and overheard their conversation, according to the affidavit.

Zamien Rivas was crying and kept saying “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to do this,” the girlfriend told police. She said she saw Zamien throw a knife during his fight with Stephen, which he picked up before fleeing the scene, the affidavit stated.

Zamien Rivas was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder and will next appear in court on May 14, according to court records. He is being held at the Adams County Sheriff’s Detention Facility without bail, .

Thornton Police Department officers responded to a 911 call about a person bleeding near East 88th Avenue and Grant Street just before 11 p.m. on March 25. The 29-year-old man was taken to the hospital and later died, and investigators determined he was injured in a stabbing, agency officials said Friday.

Zamien Rivas was arrested Thursday and booked into the Adams County Jail, according to the department.

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Ricky Roybal‑Smith, 38, was accused last summer of murder in three separate deaths. One victim was Roybal-Smith’s strangled cellmate in Denver’s Downtown Detention Center — where he was being held on suspicion of careless driving and leaving the scene of an accident — and two others who were stabbed to death in northwest Aurora, police said.

Roybal‑Smith was arrested in Denver for the hit-and-run on June 30, 2025, and Aurora police later linked him to two stabbings that happened on June 29, 2025.

The man took a deal and pleaded guilty to two charges of second-degree murder in the Aurora stabbings, which dropped two counts of first-degree murder, according to Adams County court records.

Adams County District Court Judge Brett Martin sentenced Roybal-Smith to 40 years in prison for each of the men’s deaths during a Monday morning arraignment hearing, court records show. The victims, 27‑year‑old Jesse Shafer and 61‑year‑old Scott Davenport, were both found dead with dozens of stab wounds on June 29, 2025.

Police used surveillance footage and witness interviews to piece together the timeline and identify Roybal‑Smith as the suspect who attacked and killed both men before fleeing the area, according to a news release from the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. He was already in custody at Denver’s Downtown Detention Center when Aurora police sent out a “be on the lookout alert” to other law enforcement agencies.

Investigators first connected the two stabbings because they were similar and happened near each other on the same morning, Aurora police said. Both victims were homeless at the time of their deaths, police said.

“These were horrific, senseless murders and the defendant will now spend the rest of his life behind bars,” 17th Judicial District Attorney Brian Mason said in a statement. “Jesse Shafer and Scott Davenport were killed in acts of extreme violence carried out within a short time of each other. Today’s sentence holds the defendant accountable for the lives he took and for the fear and trauma he inflicted on our community.”

Roybal-Smith is scheduled to appear in Denver District Court on April 9 for a disposition hearing in the case of his cellmate’s death. The man alerted jail deputies that his cellmate, 35-year-old Vincent Chacon, was choking and needed help in the early morning of June 30, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Chacon died before paramedics arrived, and detectives found marks on the inmate’s neck that indicated it was more likely he had been strangled to death than that he choked to death on food.

Roybal-Smith previously pleaded guilty to vehicular assault charges in 2016 after leading Littleton police on a high-speed chase that ended with the man crashing into a parked SUV, according to previous reporting. Royal-Smith was sentenced to 12 years in prison for seriously injuring a person and avoiding arrest, but was released on parole in 2022.

He was arrested while still on parole for swinging a filet knife at a fellow customer in a Walmart store in Englewood and sentenced to four years in prison for felony menacing, police said. Roybal-Smith was released early on parole in January 2025.