From Gazette.com….
A gunman killed six members of an extended family Sunday at a birthday party at a mobile home in Colorado Springs before turning the gun on himself, police said, in what appears to be the fourth deadliest mass shooting in state history, tied for the deadliest mass murder in the city’s history.
The killings happened just after midnight Sunday at the Canterbury Mobile Home Park on Preakness Way off Powers Boulevard, near the airport on the city’s east side. Officers, racing to a reported shooting, arrived at a trailer to find six dead adults and a man with serious injuries who later died at a hospital, Colorado Springs police said in a Sunday news release.
The suspect, the boyfriend of a female victim, drove to the trailer where a birthday party was being held with friends, family and children. Inside, he began shooting party attendees before taking his own life, police said, adding that the children present “are now with relatives.”
The incident was Colorado’s worst mass shooting since a gunman killed 10 people at a Boulder supermarket March 22. The killings appear to be the deadliest gun-slaying in Colorado Springs history, and are tied for the deadliest mass murder in Colorado Springs history, said Colorado Springs Police Department historian Dwight Haverkorn.
