CASPER — A 17-year-old girl has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing of another 17-year-old girl in a local neighborhood on Halloween night Thursday.
A Casper Police Department report says officers responded to a reported stabbing in the 1500 block of North Poplar Street at about 9:30 p.m. to find a teen girl with an apparent knife wound to her abdomen.
“Life-saving measures were initiated and the juvenile was transported to Banner Wyoming Medical Center in serious, but stable condition,” the CPD reports.
Police department spokesperson Amber Freestone said both the suspect and victim are Casper residents, and that she could not release an information other than what the department put out in its initial report.
That says that witnesses identified a “suspect vehicle” that was quickly located and stopped by “partnering law enforcement agencies.” Three juveniles were in the vehicle and the suspect was interviewed by detectives and arrested.
“A recommended charge of felony aggravated assault was referred to the Natrona County District Attorney’s Office,” the release states.
The stabbing is the latest in growing list of juvenile incidents involving weapons and violence in the community.
• Police responded to a juvenile male shot Oct. 19 in the 3200 Block of Hamilton Way. A juvenile suspect has been identified, but no further information on the case has been released, including if criminal charges have been brought against the alleged suspect.
• On Sept. 25, Casper police arrested an 18-year-old suspect in the July 4 shooting at a Casper park that sent a male victim to Banner Health Medical Center with a nonlife-threatening gunshot wound.
• A 19-year-old pleaded not-guilty Thursday in Natrona County District Court to a pistol-whipping and shooting incident in the early hours of Aug. 31.
• On Aug. 12, a 15-year-old fired four rounds from a pistol into a mobile home where residents were sleeping, saying: “I hope I killed one.”
• A then 15-year-old male allegedly shot his ex-girlfriend in the head and killed her adjacent to a park in Casper on May 14. He is scheduled for a change of plea hearing this month.
• Two teens await trial in the April 7 stabbing death of 14-year-old Bobby Maher.
Dale Killingbeck can be reached at dale@cowboystatedaily.com.
