A woman was hospitalized, and another is in custody on charges of stabbing her repeatedly, after what appeared to be a random attack at Denver’s Union Station’s Regonal Transportation District bus terminal Sunday night.

Denver Police Department officers confirmed the attack and the arrest of Nakila Marie Green, 37, on charges of first-degree assault.

If RTD police did not intervene, the victim’s injuries could have been worse or fatal, an arrest report shows.

The incident started just before 10 p.m. Sunday when DPD was called to the Union Station bus terminal at 1700 Wewatta St.

A witness described Green as “pacing around ‘looking for someone who was not paying attention’,” according to police.

“He states the defendant sat next to the victim,” according to the arrest report. “The defendant produced a knife from her pocket and stabbed the victim multiple times in the leg and chest.”

The victim screamed for officers to help, and they responded while “the defendant attempted to continue stabbing the victim.” The officers subdued the alleged attacker at gunpoint, then handcuffed her.

The victim was transported to Denver Health. She told police she was just sitting in the terminal when “she looked up and saw the defendant approaching. She then felt puncture wounds in her chest and legs.”

Green never said anything during the attack, the victim told police, and the two didn’t know each other.

DPD officers said RTD video footage confirmed the chain of events described by witnesses and the victim.

Green allegedly “spit on a police officer and continually spit on the inside of a patrol car while in custody,” according to the report.

Green has a lengthy criminal record dating back 17 years, according to court records. She’s been arrested more than 10 times on assault charges in that time, including menacing, criminal mischief and assaulting a peace officer.

Many of the assault charges appeared to happen while she was in jail, as evidenced by the multiple charges of “assault, bodily fluids,” court records show.

She was placed on a mental health hold in December, but released two weeks later after the order was lifted.

Green is not scheduled to appear in court until Feb. 10 on a 2025 case alleging she assaulted a peace officer, court records show.