A Denver woman accused of kidnapping a 1-year-old girl from a Five Points apartment had previously threatened to abduct the child and sell her to a family in Georgia, police wrote in an arrest affidavit.
Tiffany Earving, 39, and Stephen Harper, 53, were arrested May 6 on suspicion of attempted murder and kidnapping after police say they came into a woman’s apartment, shot a man inside and took off with the woman’s infant daughter.
Denver police responded to the 2300 block of Court Place at around 10:30 p.m. after a woman called 911 about a shooting in her apartment.
While she was on the phone with dispatchers, she began screaming that the suspects had taken her 1-year-old child, detectives wrote in the affidavit.
When officers arrived, they found a man with a gunshot wound to his hip in the apartment.
The woman told police that she and Earving – who she knew as Christmas – had a history of conflict and had previously fought.
She was inside her apartment with a friend when Earving knocked on her window and then came inside with Harper and threatened to shoot the woman and her child
The woman ran from the room, and her friend, a man, was shot when he tried to stop Earving and Harper from taking the 1-year-old, according to the affidavit.
Officers searched the area and found Earving and Harper with the baby on the fourth floor of an apartment building next door. The girl was not injured but was taken to the hospital as a precaution, police said.
Earving told investigators she was not involved in the shooting and found the baby in the alley outside.
Earving and Harper are in custody at the Downtown Detention Center. Their next court dates were not available Tuesday.
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