JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. — A Colorado Parks and Wildlife seasonal ranger was stabbed by a suspect at Staunton State Park on Tuesday and authorities are now searching for the suspect.

Nobody is in custody as of 4 p.m. Tuesday.

All visitors were evacuated from the park, CPW said. The park is located along S. Elk Creek Road in Pine, about five miles west of Conifer.

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Around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, the seasonal park ranger called the Jeffcom 911 dispatch communications center to say he had been in contact with a person at the state park and that there had been an altercation, said Jacki Kelley, public information officer with the sheriff's office.

For some time, there was just radio silence as authorities tried to contact the ranger. When they were able to connect over the radio again, t

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