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By: Jolee Sallee
Posted at 10:01 AM, Feb 16, 2024
and last updated 12:35 PM, Feb 16, 2024

BOZEMAN — Court documents say a fight last Saturday between a group of men ended up involving a box cutter, a hammer, and a wooden chisel—an eventful night that days later led to a standoff in a Bozeman neighborhood.

“Anybody who would see these injuries would be taken aback by the damage an edged weapon can do,” said Bozeman Police Detective Captain Dana McNeil.

25-year-old Andres Gonzalez and 21-year-old Santiago Echeverri were arrested on Wednesday in connection with two stabbings that happened early Saturday morning.

According to court documents, a man was walking home from downtown when two Hispanic men jumped out of their vehicle and began attacking him with knives and hammers at the corner of Bozeman and Olive, leaving him with cuts to most of his body and a deep laceration on his face.

Court documents say eventually, the men stopped attacking him to chase another person. That victim told police he and some friends were involved in a fight with the attackers earlier outside a downtown bar.

A woman living nearby watched it all go down from her window. In a video she took, you can see Bozeman Police and Gallatin County's Special Response Team surrounding a home where 17 people were detained. According to Captain McNeil, Gonzalez and Echeverri were the only two men arrested.

“The rest of them were released,” said Captain McNeil.

According to the charging documents, Gonzales told police he and Echeverri used a box cutter and chisel in the attacks.

More:
https://www.kbzk.com/news/crime-courts/bozeman-police-say-alleged-stabbing-incidents-show-increase-in-violent-crime-is-likely-as-city-grows