DENVER — A man is expected to survive after he was assaulted and stabbed while standing on a sidewalk near 20th and Larimer streets late Wednesday night.

On the Monday after an attacker on the 16th Street Mall stabbed four strangers — killing two — Denver Mayor Mike Johnston stood on the mall and declared that the city was still safe. The random acts of violence that claimed two lives on the pedestrian shopping street Johnston calls “Denver’s living room” over the weekend are “exceedingly rare,

A homicide suspect was arrested after four separate stabbing incidents left two dead and two others injured near Denver’s 16th Street Mall over the weekend. One of the people stabbed was a flight attendant on a layover who was at the wrong place at the wrong time when she was stabbed in the seemingly random attacks.