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Who were the Colorado Springs shooting victims?
Updated: May 10 2021, 13:22 ET
SIX people have died after a Colorado shooter opened fire at a birthday party before turning the gun on himself.
The incident, which happened at a trailer party on Sunday, May 9, has left a community devastated. Here’s what we know about the attack.
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Who was killed in the Colorado Springs attack?
Although the El Paso County Coroner s Office is expected to officially release the identities of the victims at a later date, family members of those at the party have already spoken to the media.
Nubia Marquez has said that her two brothers were killed in the shooting: Melvin Perez, 30, and Jose Guttierez, 21.
Family identifies 6 victims killed in shooting at Colorado Springs birthday party Nelson Oliveira
A woman who lost six members of her family when a gunman opened fire during a birthday party Sunday in Colorado Springs has identified the victims as her mother, her two brothers, her sister-in-law and her sister-in-law’s two siblings.
Nubia Marquez, 28, said the family was celebrating her birthday as well as the birthdays of her mother, Joanna Cruz, who would have turned 54, and her brother Melvin Perez, who would have turned 31 this week. Nubia Marquez and her husband, Freddy Marquez, left the party around 10 p.m. Saturday, about two hours before the rampage, she told local newspaper The Gazette.