HUSBAND, WIFE ARRESTED IN ROAD RAGE INCIDENT

A husband and wife have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a road rage incident in which shots were fired near U.S. 36 and Interstate 25.

Theodore Hrdlicka, 49, and Courtney Hrdlicka, both of Denver, have been arrested on suspicion of five counts of criminal attempt to commit murder in the first degree and three counts of illegal discharge of a firearm, according to the Adams County Sheriff’s Office.

At about 7:10 p.m. Sunday, deputies were called to a residence in the Western Hills area on Lipan Drive near El Paso Boulevard on a report of shooting, the sheriff’s office said in a news release.

A victim, who was fired upon, followed a suspect vehicle, a silver/gray Chevrolet pickup truck, to the Lipan residence after his vehicle was hit by gunfire in the area of U.S. 36 and I-25, the sheriff’s office said. Two additional victims reported that their vehicles were also hit by gun rounds fired from a truck in the same area of highway.

Deputies questioned several people and subsequently arrested the suspects, the release said. The investigation is ongoing.

On Sunday at about 6 p.m., Littleton police responded to a “road rage” disturbance at the intersection of South Santa Fe Drive and West Bellview Avenue, police said in a news release. The Littleton incident involved a gray pickup truck and latemodel BMW SUV. As the driver of the pickup truck fled the scene, shots were fired at the BMW. No one was injured, but three cars were hit by gunfire.

Littleton police suspect the same driver and vehicle involved in the Santa Fe Drive incident is the same one involved in the Adams County incident, according to the news release.

Denver man in custody after allegedly stabbing 3.

Police are holding a 19year-old man for investigation of second-degree assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly stabbed and seriously injured two men and a woman Sunday night with a kitchen knife in a Westwood neighborhood home, police said.

Christian Garcia allegedly stabbed three people, ages 54 and 55, and a man in his early 20s at 9:40 p.m. Sunday night in the 600 block of South Newton Street, said a Denver police probable cause statement.

One witness claimed he went into Garcia’s room to check on him when Garcia stabbed him in the chest. A woman then entered the room and was stabbed five times. Garcia allegedly stabbed the third person as he opened the bedroom door to investigate the commotion, the police statement said.

Witnesses said the knife attacks were not provoked, the police statement said.

Fatal shooting ruled homicide by coroner.

A fatal shooting that took place Saturday on West 38th Avenue has been ruled a homicide by the Denver medical examiner’s office.

Officers responded to a medical call outside the Beer Depot Lounge around 12:30 a.m. and found a man who had been shot. Erik McAllister, 41, was taken to Denver Health Medical Center from the 4200 block of West 38th Avenue in Denver’s Berkeley neighborhood, according to a news release from the coroner’s office. McAllister was pronounced dead at the hospital around 2 a.m. — Denver Post staff reports