Seven people they died in one shooting during a birthday party in a private home a Colorado Springs, in Colorado. The police responded to a call around 12.18 local time, upon their arrival the officers found six people dead, while a seriously injured child was taken to hospital. The man suspected of having opened fire it would be the boyfriend of one of the women among the victims. After shooting the party man he took his own life. All the victims are adults, the children are all unharmed and have been entrusted to relatives.
“Today we find ourselves mourning the loss of life and solemnly praying for those who have been injured and for those who have lost family members in a senseless act of violence,” said the mayor by Colorado Springs John Suthers. “The words – said the police chief Vince Niski – are not enough to describe the tragedy that took place this morning. As police chief, as a husband, as a father, as a grandfather, as a member of this community, my heart breaks for families who have lost someone they love and for children who have lost their parents. From the officers who responded to the shooting to the detectives still at the scene, we were all incredibly shocked. This is something you hope will never happen in your community, in the place you call home. “
The massacre is just the latest in a long series of gun-toting crimes that have hit the United States in recent months. On 22 March a Boulder, also in Colorado, a 21-year-old killed ten people in a supermarket. A week earlier another 21-year-old had killed eight people in the area of Atlanta. Colorado had already become infamous in 1999 for the massacre of Columbine, in which 15 people died in a high school at the hands of two students.