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Eighty-four-year-old woman accused of attempted murder in attack involving elderly women at Colorado Springs apartment
Colorado state representative's daughter arrested in Denver stabbing
Abstracted from story by Natasha Lynn, Colorado Springs Gazette
January 24, 2025 — An 84-year-old woman was arrested for the attempted murder of two people at a Colorado Springs apartment building this month.
According to the arrest affidavit, officers arrived to the 900 block of East Colorado Avenue just after 9 PM after receiving a call from a 72-year-old female victim, who informed officers that she was woken up when Myrtle Charlene Wolf tried to strangle her. She told police she recently had hip surgery and leaves the front door of her apartment unlocked so her friends can come check on her.
The victim said Wolf used an electrical stun device to “ zap ” her neck and chest.The victim tried to fight back but then Ms. Wolf began punching her.
The victim was able to get away and into the hallway to bang on neighbors' doors for help. One of the neighbors, 80, confronted Ms. Wolf in the hallway, where she was holding a knife and pointing it at them. The neighbor said she grabbed the knife and hit Ms. Wolf's hand to make her let go.
The victim told officers this was the second time Myrtle Wolf had attacked her. There was a protection order in place as a result of the previous assault, reported in August of 2024.
According to court records, Ms. Wolf is facing felony charges for attempted second-degree murder, burglary, menacing, and assault, among other charges. No motive for her attacks was given.
Abstracted from story by Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post
June 18, 2025 — Nefretarie Lockley, 29-year-old daughter of Rep. Naquetta Ricks, D-Aurora, is charged with attempted first-degree murder, assault, menacing, and crime-of-violence sentence enhancers after stabbing a 21-year-old woman during an altercation in north Denver.
Officers arrived at 3900 N. Elati Street at about 7:30 PM to find a woman in critical condition who had been stabbed in the back. The victim's husband told officers that a Black woman wearing a blue hoodie had just attacked his wife. The victim was taken to a local hospital in critical condition.
As officers began investigating they discovered a blue hoodie in a trash can nearby. As the officers went to try to pull security camera footage of the attack, they encountered Ms. Lockley. She came out of a building and asked if someone had called the police.
The officers asked Nefretarie Lockley if she was involved in the stabbing, and she said she was. They arrested her and found a box cutter in her sweatshirt pocket and a large kitchen knife inside a blue bag she carried. The kitchen knife “was consistent with” the wound to the victim, police said.
Ms. Lockley admitted she knew the woman who was stabbed, said she had a prior confrontation with the woman, and admitted to stabbing her, according to the police affidavit.
Ms. Lockley is being held on $100,000 cash-only bail in the Denver Detention Center, county court records show.
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