Sandra Ibarra-Perez, 28
Jose Ibarra, 26
Police said the shooting the deadliest in the city s history was an act of domestic violence.
During a news conference Tuesday, police identified the shooter, Teodoro Macias of Colorado Springs, as a boyfriend to one of the victims boyfriend who was angry after he wasn t invited to a family gathering Sunday night. He arrived at the home and began shooting, killing six people before turning the gun on himself.
Also, the Colorado Healing Fund is now accepting donations to support the shooting s victims.
Donations will be distributed through the fund’s community partners to victims, including the Colorado Organizations of Victim Assistance, according to the nonprofit’s website.
“The Colorado Healing Fund stands ready to accept the public’s donations and will work with local agencies and organizations in Colorado Springs to identify and respond to the immediate and long-term needs of those impacted,” said CHF Board President Cynthia Coffman in a news release.
Here’s how to donate to the Colorado Healing Fund:
Online by visiting ColoradoHealingFund.org;
Donate through Colorado Gives and direct the donation to the Colorado Springs Canterbury Community Shooting;
Checks and in-person donations will be accepted at Colorado-based FirstBank (1STBank) locations. Donors should make checks out to “Colorado Healing Fund and write CO Springs in the memo. When depositing the check with bank tellers, please designate donations for the Colorado Healing Fund’s “victim account”.
Police allege man killed 6, self after not invited to party
AP, COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado
A man who fatally shot six people at a Colorado birthday party before killing himself was upset because he was not invited to the weekend gathering thrown by his girlfriend’s family, police said on Tuesday, calling the shooting an act of domestic violence.
The shooter, 28-year-old Teodoro Macias, had been in a relationship with one of the victims, 28-year-old Sandra Ibarra, for about a year and had history of controlling and jealous behavior, Colorado Springs Police Department’s Lieutenant Joe Frabbiele told a news conference.
And then there s the matter of race.
In our September 9, 2020, post Guns Killed Four Times More People of Color Than Whites in Colorado, we examined state-specific data from the National Gun Violence Memorial. The statistics revealed that during the first eight months of 2020, during which ninety people were killed by firearms in Colorado, around three-quarters of the victims were people of color.
This percentage was far from what would have been expected, just going by Colorado s demographics. As of July 2019, the U.S. Census Bureau put the category described as White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, at 67.7 percent of the state population, with Hispanic or Latino representing 21.8 percent and Black or African American alone coming in at 4.6 percent.