Update: Police arrest 5th suspect after fatal Boise stabbing, robbery
Following new arrests, police now have apprehended five people for their suspected involvement in an incident that left a Boise resident dead earlier this week.
And within hours of the Boise Police Department asking the public for help Thursday locating a fifth suspect, officers located and arrested the 34-year-old man.
Boise police responded to a call at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 7300 block of W. Ustick Road and found an unresponsive man with a stab wound, according to a previous news release. Paramedics brought the victim, later identified as 31-year-old Nicholas Tenney, to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, where he died in an operating room, according to the Ada County Coroner’s Office.
The coroner listed Tenney’s cause of death as a “sharp force injury of the chest” and the manner of death as homicide.
Police arrested two suspects, Eliseo Torres and Daydreyn Pelton, near the scene, and said evidence indicated that Torres stabbed Tenney during a fight involving them and several others.
Torres, 36, of Caldwell, was injured and received treatment at a hospital before being booked into the Ada County Jail. He has been charged with second-degree murder and an enhancement for use of a deadly weapon in commission of a felony, and also faces previous drug-related charges from an outstanding warrant, according to online court records.
Pelton, 25, of Boise, was “involved in the altercation and stole property from Torres,” police said. He was booked into the jail and faces felony charges of robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery, court records showed.
Boise police made their third and fourth arrests Wednesday. Andrew Lucas, 25, of Kuna, was arrested just before 6 p.m. Wednesday near North Cole Road and West Emerald Street on felony charges of criminal conspiracy and robbery, among other things. A 28-year-old woman from Kuna was arrested on a charge of conspiracy to commit robbery.
Police also arrested Nicholaus Kyser, Thursday after issuing a news release seeking any information about the Meridian man’s whereabouts.
At around 4 p.m. Thursday police received information about Kyser’s location and were able to locate his vehicle, according to an updated news release from the Boise Police Department. Officers pulled Kyser over in the area of Maple Grove and Chinden and were able to arrest him without any issues, police said.
He was booked into the Ada County Jail on suspicion of two felonies: criminal conspiracy and robbery.
This story was originally published October 31, 2024 at 2:32 PM.
