Denver woman threatened to kidnap baby, police say

A Denver woman accused of kidnapping a -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 and Stephen Harper were arrested May 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 block of Court Place at around p m after a woman called about a shooting in her apartment While she was on the phone with dispatchers she began screaming that the subjects had taken her -year-old child detectives wrote in the affidavit When officers arrived they detected a man with a gunshot wound to his hip in the apartment The woman described 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 -year-old according to the affidavit Officers searched the area and detected 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 explained Related Articles Baby kidnapping discovered while police respond to Denver shooting arrested Attempted kidnapping near Thornton Middle School leads to one arrest Michigan police arrest th suspect in kidnapping at Aurora apartments Four men indicted on federal kidnapping charges in Denver incident Man who killed Denver woman and strangled her son sentenced to years in prison Earving recounted investigators she was not involved in the shooting and identified 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 Sign up to get crime news sent straight to your inbox each day