Police in Colorado were searching for a motive Monday after a gunman opened fire at a birthday party over the weekend, killing six people before …
Police in Colorado were searching for a motive Monday after a gunman opened fire at a birthday party over the weekend, killing six people before killing himself. The shooting at a Colorado Springs, Colorado, mobile home park early Sunday is the 13th mass killing this year, according to database compiled by USA TODAY, Northeastern University and The Associated Press. Colorado Springs police responded to reports of shots fired shortly after midnight Sunday at the Canterbury Mobile Home Park and found six people dead. A seventh was taken to the hospital where he later died. «The suspect, a boyfriend of one of the female victims, drove to the residence, walked inside and began shooting people at the party before taking his own life. This horrific act has resulted in the death of six adult victims,» Colorado Springs Police Department said in a statement. The group was gathered inside the residence for a birthday party, and friends, family and children all inside, police said. No children were injured in the shooting, and all were with relatives Sunday. A mobile crime lab was parked early Monday outside the Colorado Springs home, which was cordoned off by yellow police tape as officers guarded the scene. By midafternoon the tape was gone; a sign stood in front of the home advertising “Grief Support,10 a.m. to 6 p.m.,» at the mobile home park office. A small crowd of mourners arrived to pay their respects, leaving bouquets of yellow roses and devotional candles on a small table they set up in front of the home. They silently gazed, then left without comment under a dark, gray sky and blustering winds. Someone closed a partially open window in the home from the outside.
