Two stabbings Sunday, one deadly, and another around 1:30 a.m. Monday police said are connected.

Police arrested 44-year-old Wayne Thomas Mitchell of El Paso.

Mitchell allegedly stabbed 52-year-old Debra Buchanan in the stomach.

“She's doing so, so. They're monitoring her because the guy that stabbed her hit her kidney,” Rockie Whitt said. She said she is Buchanan’s mother.

Whitt also said she treated the man killed in Sunday night’s stabbing, 58-year-old Marshall Dorris, like her son.

“They put me in a room. And I already knew what that was because I had already been there before when a friend of mine died. That's when the doctor came and told me that my baby had died. That they tried real hard to bring him back, but his heart gave out because he lost so much blood,” Whitt told KFOX 14 while in tears.

“Just the idea of him being so kind hearted is what I can’t get over.”

Whitt said Buchanan was deaf in both years, and collected disability checks from the government.

Whitt told KFOX 14 Buchanan is studying to become a counselor at El Paso Community College.

Buchanan is reportedly in critical but stable condition at University Medical Center as of Monday night.

The third stabbing happened when Mitchell left the apartment, he called Bernadette Rivera, 44, for a ride and met her around 1:30 a.m. Monday on the 3900 block of Harrison Street, police said.

Police said that as Rivera drove, Mitchell stabbed her in the abdomen and continued to fight with her until she jumped from the vehicle.

Mitchell fled the area in the victim's gold 2006 Kia, police said.

Police said they arrested Mitchell around 2 p.m. on the 3700 block of Wickham Avenue after a foot pursuit.

Mother of woman stabbed in apartment talks exclusively to KFOX 14