Authorities have made an arrest in an alleged stabbing that happened in the parking lot at 1755 Central Park Drive in the early morning hours Sunday.

Steamboat Springs police are handling the investigation. Police declined to release additional information about the alleged incident Monday morning, saying that it is an active investigation and then issuing a news release later in the day.

In the news release, police said a 31-year-old man showed up at the hospital with a stab wound early Sunday morning, and investigators quickly identified a suspect. Police then sought an arrest warrant for Erlin Galeano Torrez, 37, of Steamboat Springs. Torrez reportedly turned himself in to Steamboat police Monday and is being held at the Routt County Jail.

According to the arrest affidavit, Torrez and the man injured in the stabbing knew each other before the incident, as the affidavit reports the man who was injured in the stabbing is reported to be married to Torrez’s sister.

The affidavit says the man was at a local restaurant with three other men from 11 p.m. until about 2 a.m. and the stabbing occurred in the Central Park Plaza parking lot about 30 minutes after the men left the establishment.

The affidavit says the man who was injured in the stabbing was sitting in the driver’s seat of a pickup when Torrez reached through an open window and thrust an edged weapon described as a knife into the man’s abdominal area.

The man then drove himself to the hospital for emergency medical treatment. The affidavit says there was an existing protection order in which Torrez is listed as the protected party and the man who was injured is listed as the restrained party.

According to the arrest affidavit, the protection order resulted from a fight on Oct. 8, 2023, in which Torrez was cut by a different man with a beer bottle and the man injured in the stabbing threatened Torrez with a baseball bat.

The affidavit suggests there is evidence to charge Torrez with first-degree assault. It was not clear Monday if Torrez has retained an attorney.

This is the second reported stabbing in Steamboat Springs in less than a week.

In an unrelated case, Steamboat police issued a statement Thursday saying they arrested a juvenile Tuesday afternoon after the juvenile broke into a home on Mark Twain Court earlier that morning.

The victim of the stabbing was watching the house at the time of the incident and was later airlifted to a Front Range hospital. The victim was subsequently reported to be in stable condition, according to local law enforcement.

Steamboat’s Police Chief Mark Beckett said Thursday that the juvenile was being held at a facility in Grand Junction.

Court records show the juvenile appeared in Routt County Court following the arrest. The clerk’s office for the court denied a request for documents involved in the case so the outcome of the appearance is unknown.