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La Jornada – Shootings in Colorado and Arizona leave 8 dead

Colorado Springs., Eight dead and seven wounded was the balance of new shootings that occurred yesterday in entities of the United States.

In Colorado, seven people were killed when a man shot at a birthday party. The shooting occurred just after midnight in a mobile home park in eastern Colorado Springs, police said.

Agents who arrived at one of the mobile homes found six dead adults and a seriously injured man who later died at a hospital, it reported. Colorado Springs Gazette.

The alleged attacker was the boyfriend of a woman who died at the party, to which children had attended. The attacker arrived, shot attendees and committed suicide, the police report added.

This is the third mass shooting in Colorado Springs since October 2015, including a massacre on Halloween and an attack on a family planning clinic, local media recalled.

In another incident, a man was killed and seven people were injured in a shooting at a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, early yesterday morning, authorities said.

The incident occurred at the Hyatt Regency Phoenix, when an altercation between a group of young people between the ages of 18 and 22 resulted in a shootout, police said.

“We believe it was an isolated incident, not a random attack,” said police spokeswoman Maggie Cox, adding that “more than one person shot at the scene.”

It was not clear what event was held at the hotel, near the city’s convention center and the stadium where the Suns basketball team plays.

The United States has been the scene of a series of mass shootings in recent weeks, including one at a FedEx location in Indianapolis, another at offices in California, a third at a Colorado grocery store, and another at various massage parlors. in Atlanta.

In 2020, there were more than 43,000 firearm-related deaths in the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

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