Seven dead in US birthday party shooting

A person has fatally shot six different individuals together with his girlfriend after which himself at a birthday party in in the US metropolis of Colorado Springs, sparing the kids who had been current contained in the trailer at a cellular house park, officers say.

“The suspect, a boyfriend of one of many feminine victims, drove to the residence, walked inside and commenced shooting individuals on the party earlier than taking his personal life,” mentioned a press release launched by the Colorado Springs Police Division on Sunday.

A motive has but to be decided.

The bloodbath about 110 kilometres south of Denver is the newest in a resurgence of mass shootings in the USA after such incidents appeared to recede through the peak of coronavirus pandemic restrictions.

Among the many incidents this 12 months was one in Boulder, Colorado, the place a person has been charged with 10 counts of homicide for a shooting spree at a grocery store about 50 km northwest of Denver.

Colorado was additionally the state the place two different lethal rampages happened, each in the Denver space; the 1999 shooting at Columbine Excessive Faculty that killed 15 individuals together with the 2 perpetrators, and the 2012 shooting in a film theatre that killed 12 individuals and wounded about 70. The Aurora shooter is serving a life sentence.

Colorado Springs Police Chief Vince Niski mentioned “my coronary heart breaks for the households” in Sunday’s assault and promised to help them.

“My vow to this neighborhood and to the households who’ve misplaced somebody as we speak, is that this division will do all the things we will to seek out you the solutions you deserve and be right here for you with an unwavering help,” Niski mentioned in the police assertion.

Police mentioned they withheld releasing particulars of the shooting for a number of hours “in order to correctly and respectfully notify members of the family of the deceased and guarantee help was in place.”

The names of the victims could be launched later, the assertion mentioned.