Four shot dead in Colorado

[Reece]

A gunman who barricaded himself inside a townhouse after killing three people in the home was shot to death by police on Saturday in Aurora, Colorado, the same Denver suburb where 12 people were slain in a movie house massacre last July, police said.

But the motive for the killings was not immediately understood.

We're trying to find out what set this guy off," she told Reuters.

A hostage-negotiation team called to the scene had sought to talk the suspect into surrendering for about five hours before police moved to shoot tear gas into the home at about 8:00 a.m. (10:00 a.m. EST/1500 GMT), prompting the gunman to open fire on officers from inside, police said.
About an hour later, the gunman began firing at police again from a second-floor window, and police returned fire, killing the suspect, according to a police statement following the incident. No police were wounded.
Officers entering the townhouse found the bodies of the gunman and three other people - two men and a woman - who were presumed to have been shot hours earlier before police were called to the scene.

"None of the officers heard gunshots until they were directed at us at about 8 o'clock," Carlson said. The woman who escaped the home also told police the victims were shot before she fled.

The names of the gunman and his three victims were being withheld until the coroner could confirm their identities and notify next of kin, authorities said.

The episode kept residents in much of the surrounding community awake overnight, as police notified neighbors of an emergency situation and evacuated several adjacent blocks.

One neighbor, Sunil Pawar, 59, said he received a reverse 911 call advising him to stay inside and away from windows before police later showed up to ring doorbells and escort residents of the townhouse development to safety.

Pawar said he opted to stay put, later hearing gunshots, followed by the voices of police calling to the gunman though a bullhorn, saying, "Sonny, we want to talk to you, pick up the phone, Sonny."

Another neighbor, Michael Ignace, 46, said he had previously spoken with the man suspected of the shooting, and "he seemed like a reasonable guy, and we talked about motorcycles."

The standoff and shooting unfolded just a few miles south of the Aurora movie theater where 12 people were killed and 58 others wounded when a lone gunman opened fire there in July during a midnight showing of the Batman film, "The Dark Knight Rises."

The suspect in that rampage, former college student James Holmes, is due back in court on Monday for a hearing in which prosecutors will seek to convince a judge they have sufficient evidence to put him on trial.

The Colorado movie theater killings had ranked as deadliest mass shooting in the United States last year until a December 14 massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, where a gunman shot 20 school children and six adults to death before taking his own life. The shooter in that case also had killed his mother at their home.

[Mikal]

You need more guns America? -.-

[Dolfagr]

Aurora again? The authorities learned nothing since the last attack it seems.

[Alsatian]

Well I guess as long as the Second Amendment is left untouched, this can and will continue.

[AK47]

Sounds like America never learns.

[SugarD]

Blaming a country for a couple sick people going on rampages every few months is a joke. If you look at the real statistics for shootings worldwide, you'll find that this happens every day. It's just these that happened to get public attention during a time where the news is searching for ratings...

[JayL]

Blaming a country for a couple sick people going on rampages every few months is a joke. If you look at the real statistics for shootings worldwide, you'll find that this happens every day. It's just these that happened to get public attention during a time where the news is searching for ratings...

USA's situation is particular. Also, why are you calling every person who makes this kind of stuff insane/sick/whatever? For your info, these people are immersed in a culture of violence - it has to do with something else than state of mind.

[Boozman]

Once again, America can become more strict on fun laws all they won't. But as I've said before, that won't fix shit.

How will you remove somethings that's been in surplus for the past 200+ years?

[SugarD]

USA's situation is particular. Also, why are you calling every person who makes this kind of stuff insane/sick/whatever? For your info, these people are immersed in a culture of violence - it has to do with something else than state of mind.

If you are willing to take another person's life for no reason at all, you are indeed mentally sick.

[Teddy]

Remove guns to prevent crime? Sorry, I forgot criminals followed the law.

If you are willing to take another person's life for no reason at all, you are indeed mentally sick.

This.

Well I guess as long as the Second Amendment is left untouched, this can and will continue.

Easier said than done. Revoking a bill of rights would take years upon years to do. Your better off making weapons harder to get, which I agree with. Physiological testing and mental health need to be the primary address is permitting firearm purchasing as in most cases it'll make it harder to get weapons legally, thats ignoring the fact there are more illegal firearms on the street than legal ones.

[Matt Murdock]

Blaming a country for a couple sick people going on rampages every few months is a joke. If you look at the real statistics for shootings worldwide, you'll find that this happens every day. It's just these that happened to get public attention during a time where the news is searching for ratings...

If a family consists of 10 members, 8 of which are mad(as in mentally disabled), It'd still be called a family of mentally disabled people right?

I find it right to blame the country now, since the occurrence of such incidents has increased rapidly.

[SugarD]

If a family consists of 10 members, 8 of which are mad(as in mentally disabled), It'd still be called a family of mentally disabled people right?

I find it right to blame the country now, since the occurrence of such incidents has increased rapidly.

You are contradicting your own statements by saying it's wrong to stereotype the family, but fine to stereotype the country for the faults.

[Matt Murdock]

You are contradicting your own statements by saying it's wrong to stereotype the family, but fine to stereotype the country for the faults.

I didn't say its wrong to stereotype the family, its absolutely right in my view.  :devroll:

[Mikal]

Blaming a country for a couple sick people going on rampages every few months is a joke. If you look at the real statistics for shootings worldwide, you'll find that this happens every day. It's just these that happened to get public attention during a time where the news is searching for ratings...

Quit calling all the people who do the shootings sick because half of them arnt, they are people trying to make a stand for something using guns which America's governments let them have because they never learn, you can keep blaming the 'sick people' just to avoid the problem that is your country but the fact is, the solution is to get rid of guns which you guys can't seem to do because guns are not the problem, according to Americans anyway.

Let me point you back in the direction of this again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungerford_massacre
After his massacre the UK stamped down completely on guns, since then there has only been 1 mass shooting, I do not understand why the f**k you Americans don't see that guns are the problem, it makes me understand that number 20 position on the world intelligence list, deny your problems and they will just cause you more trouble as guns are doing in America right now.

[Wolfe]

Blaming a country for a couple sick people going on rampages every few months is a joke. If you look at the real statistics for shootings worldwide, you'll find that this happens every day. It's just these that happened to get public attention during a time where the news is searching for ratings...

Every few weeks you got a mass murder going on, it's not a fucking coincidence.