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Saturday, 28 November 2015
Three killed, nine injured in Colorado shooting
Three people were shot dead and nine others
injured in a shooting on Friday in the city of
Colorado Springs, the United States, according to
authorities.
After more than five hours of standoff, police
arrested a gunman, who stormed a Planned
Parenthood abortion clinic in Colorado Springs
and opened fire with a rifle.
Those killed includes one officer and two civilians,
Colorado Springs Police Chief Peter Carey told
reporters about an hour after the suspect had
been captured, adding that all nine surviving
victims, five police officers and four civilians, were
in good condition at area hospitals.
Colorado Springs Police spokeswoman Lt.
Catherine Buckley told local media that later in
the afternoon, officers were able to get close
enough to the suspect who holed up in a clinic of
Colorado Springs’ branch of Planned Parenthood
and exchanged gunfire with police. At that point,
officers were able to get him to surrender.
The suspect was seen escorted by police out of
the clinic in handcuffs just before 5:00 p.m. local
time.
The identity and motive of the suspect are not
revealed yet. The suspect said he acted alone.
“We do not know about this person’s mentality or
ideology,” Buckley said.
About 150 police officers from the city and the
state police departments were sent to the scene
after gun shots were reported at around 11:30
a.m.
At 2:15 p.m., police tweeted that officers were
“encountering gunfire” from a suspect inside the
Planned Parenthood building.
More than a dozen police vehicles and
ambulances were at the scene. SWAT members
managed to evacuate some 20 people from the
clinic before the suspect surrendered.
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