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10-12-2007, 12:14 AM
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jrrwY_69cu8IWx25NxMzVoWm8rrQ
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (AFP) — Five people including the suspected attacker were killed on Sunday in a shooting near a church in Colorado Springs, the county sheriff said.
El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa told AFP there was "one gunman down" and "four deceased, possibly one wounded" in the incident but said the casualty toll was "preliminary."
It was the second shooting within about 12 hours in the state of Colorado, with an earlier assault at a Christian missionary center in Arvada claiming two lives and two wounded.
It was unclear if the two shootings were related.
The site of the first shooting in Arvada, a suburb of Denver, lies about 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of Colorado Springs.
The second shooting in Colorado Springs occurred near the New Life Church, an evangelical congregation with some 10,000 members.
The church made headlines in 2006 when its leader and founder, pastor Ted Haggard, was forced to resign after having committed what he called "sexual immorality."
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (AFP) — Five people including the suspected attacker were killed on Sunday in a shooting near a church in Colorado Springs, the county sheriff said.
El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa told AFP there was "one gunman down" and "four deceased, possibly one wounded" in the incident but said the casualty toll was "preliminary."
It was the second shooting within about 12 hours in the state of Colorado, with an earlier assault at a Christian missionary center in Arvada claiming two lives and two wounded.
It was unclear if the two shootings were related.
The site of the first shooting in Arvada, a suburb of Denver, lies about 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of Colorado Springs.
The second shooting in Colorado Springs occurred near the New Life Church, an evangelical congregation with some 10,000 members.
The church made headlines in 2006 when its leader and founder, pastor Ted Haggard, was forced to resign after having committed what he called "sexual immorality."