Colorado Springs authorities believe the perpetrator of the Sunday mass shooting was the boyfriend of a female victim and the carnage was “a domestic violence incident.”
Freddy Marquez, who had left the doomed birthday party two hours prior to the massacre, said that the family was celebrating the birthdays of his wife Nubia and her brother Melvin.
Melvin Perez, just turned 31, was killed along with his 21-year-old brother Jose Gutierrez, and their mother 53-year-old Joana Cruz.
The three other victims were Melvin’s wife Mayra, 32, and her siblings, Sandra and Jose Ibarra.
Nubia’s husband said that the shooter swarmed the Canterbury trailer home after the party wrapped up and many of the adults he shot had been sleeping at the time.
The party was attended by children too, but the shooter did not harm any kids. He took his own life after the bloodbath.
Joana Cruz’s husband survived the nightmare as he was in the bathroom. Freddy said that the terrified man witnessed the rampage from there.
“He said he heard all the gunfire and when he opened up the bathroom door, everything had happened already, almost like in a blink of an eye,” Marquez said.
“He said the guy was on a mission basically like he went in there knowing what he was going to do. He did it, and that was that. There was no fighting. He went in there and did what he was there to do.”
