DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. — A defendant accused of stabbing three people — including the back of a 7-year-old's head — in Douglas County earlier this year has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him.

Luke Barkhaus, 32, pleaded not guilty on Friday morning to all eight felonies filed against him, which include two counts of first-degree assault, attempted first-degree assault, second-degree assault, three counts of felony menacing and child abuse.

Barkhaus was arrested on the morning of Jan. 28 in Aurora.

Two days prior, officers with the Parker Police Department responded to a restaurant after receiving a report that a person had stabbed an employee and fled. About an hour later, another Parker business called police and reported a stabbing by a suspect that matched the descript

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