5 killed in weekend violence in Denver, Aurora, Commerce City [Video]

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — Five people were killed and several others were wounded in shootings and stabbings in Denver, Aurora and Commerce City this weekend, police in those cities said. 

Three men were fatally shot and a woman was hospitalized with gunshot wounds in Commerce City. 

In Aurora, a person was fatally shot and three others were injured during two separate altercations Sunday.

In Denver, one person was killed and six people injured in a string of weekend shootings and stabbings, police said.

Commerce City Police Department spokesperson Joanna Small described it as “an incredibly violent weekend” for the community of about 70,000 people.

“We average maybe five or six homicides a year,” she said. “We’re now talking about four homicides and a person in critical condition in 39 hours … The fact that the crimes are not related …