“Seven people are dead after a man opened fire inside a birthday party at a mobile home in Colorado Springs overnight, according to police. The killings happened just after midnight Sunday morning at the Canterbury Mobile Home Park on Preakness Way, on the east side of the city. Officers, dispatched on report of a shooting, arrived at a trailer to find six dead adults and a man with serious injuries” reports the Colorado Springs Gazette.
“That man later died at the hospital, Colorado Springs police said in a Sunday news release. The suspect, the boyfriend of a female victim, drove to a trailer, where a birthday party was being held, with friends, family and children in attendance. He walked inside and began shooting party attendees before taking his own life, police said, adding that the children present ‘are now with relatives.’ In a Sunday statement Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers called the mass shooting a ‘senseless act of violence’ and asked for the public’s patience as the police department investigates. ‘Today we find ourselves mourning the loss of lives and praying solemnly for those who were injured and those who lost family members,’ Suthers said. ‘We think too of the emergency personnel who responded to a horrific scene and we keep them in our prayers today.'”