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Woman arrested in man’s stabbing death at Capitol Hill home

A 27-year-old woman was arrested Friday in connection with the stabbing death of a 64-year-old man who was found dead in a Capitol Hill apartment on Jan. 2.

Anissa Johnson was identified as a suspect in the homicide through surveillance videos and witness statements, according to an arrest affidavit released by the Denver Police Department on Monday.

Denver police received welfare calls on Jan. 1 and 2 about a man who lived in the 1200 block of North Washington Street who had not been heard from for the last week, according to the affidavit.

The man has not yet been identified by the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner.

The man’s body was found with no visible trauma, and police initially investigated the death as a drug overdose. An investigator from the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner later found multiple stab wounds on the body, which started the homicide investigation, according to the affidavit. Investigators also found blood spatters and an overturned chair at the scene.

Neighbors told police they heard a woman yelling and doors slamming and saw a woman walking outside in the snow with no shoes on Dec. 23, according to the affidavit.

Surveillance video later showed the man and a woman, later identified as Johnson, entering the apartment late on Dec. 23, and Johnson leaving just after midnight carrying what appeared to be a knife and not wearing shoes.

Johnson was identified through law enforcement databases, including Denver booking photos, and was located in the area of East 14th Avenue and North Ogden Street and arrested on Friday.

She is in custody at the Downtown Detention Center on a $1 million cash bail, according to court records.

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