Four people killed inside Colorado house, including gunman

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Published time: January 05, 2013 16:29
Edited time: January 06, 2013 08:08

Police continue their investigation outside of a home following an overnight hostage-taking incident in Aurora, Colorado January 5, 2013. (Reuters/Evan Semon)

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Four people have been killed inside a house in Aurora, Colorado, including the gunman. It remains unclear whether officers shot the suspect or if he shot himself.

"We're just getting in there with our crime scene detectives, so obviously we'll have to determine if it was our rounds or his rounds,'' Police Sgt. Cassidee Carlson told AP. "This is a big investigation, and a lot is entailed.''

Investigators say the three victims appeared to have been killed before police arrived at the scene.

A fifth person escaped uninjured before officers arrived and reported that she saw three bodies which "appeared lifeless," Carlson said.

A SWAT team was called after gunshots were heard at the home around 3am local time.

The gunman barricaded himself inside the house for six hours, and was killed around 9am.

SWAT teams deployed what may have been tear gas inside the home around 8:30am, in an effort to get the suspect to come out.

Officers initially tried to negotiate with the man using a bullhorn.

Several homes in the area were evacuated by police teams for safety reasons.

The names and ages of the victims have not yet been released.

Aurora was the site of a mass shooting July 20 inside a movie theater during a midnight screening of the film 'The Dark Knight Rises.' The shooting left 12 people dead.

Police survey the outside of a townhouse complex following an overnight hostage-taking incident in Aurora, Colorado January 5, 2013. (Reuters/Evan Semon)

An unidentified woman reacts outside a townhouse complex following an overnight hostage-taking incident in Aurora, Colorado January 5, 2013. (Reuters/Evan Semon)

A police officer stands watch in front of a broken out window in a town home where four people were killed Saturday morning including the gunman who held police at bay for several hours at the complex January 5, 2013 in Aurora, Colorado. (Marc Piscotty/Getty Images/AFP)

Friends and neighbors react outside a townhouse complex following an overnight hostage-taking incident in Aurora, Colorado January 5, 2013. (Reuters/Evan Semon)

Police continue their investigation outside of a home following an overnight hostage-taking incident in Aurora, Colorado January 5, 2013. (Reuters/Evan Semon)

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Comments (42)

Will (unregistered) 07.01.2013 02:29

I really don't understand why the American public see gun control laws as an issue. It works VERY well in other countries... yet somehow this is a ploy to control and subdue the population? They claim it's to be able to defend themselves against potential military take overs or robberies etc. An army of armed civilians with minimal equipment and training doesn't have any hope of defending against probably the best equiped force on the planet. If the military wanted to take over, they could do it very easily. As for home invasions and robberies, take away the guns and over time this is going to be far less common.

Besides, gun control doesn't mean "no guns", it means limitations on the types of weapons, and rules for licensing. Of course, that's all just another method of stripping the public of their rights and invoking a fascist state, right? That's what I've heard?

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Geronimo O.K. 06.01.2013 17:28

Truth be Told (unregistered) wrote in #16
whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. I agree with you that you have to be able to defend yourself against any American government but owning a six shooter won't get you very far against the military power of the government and unless you extend licenses to cover fighter jets, patriot missiles and drones you will never be a worthy adversary for your government All this bull about having to own a gun to protect you from the government is completely ridiculous.Juust ask the Branch Davidians, just ask William Cooper.

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SuperiorEuropean (unregistered) 06.01.2013 13:44

LOL!
Another day in the usa...
I used to pray for the usa to be destroyed. Now I don't bother!
Leave the usa alone for a while and the things that 'ordinary' americans do to the usa are FAR worse than ANYTHING done by ANY enemy, ANY terrorist group, ANY group or religion hostile to the american animals.

Go to it, usa! Go do... that voodoo... that you do... so WELL!
LOL!

My advice to all 'decent' americans (if any still exist?);
- Toss away your american citizenship as soon as you can
- Burn your american passport
- Gather what remains of your trash and exchange it for some assets
- Exit the gulag while you are able to
- Leave the human filth there to their fate
- Go live in any one of over a hundred FAR better, FAR nicer places
- Escape and be free of the usa's terrorizing grip
- Laugh at the usa with the rest of us
- Be free and happy

Sorted. ..

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