Horror in Colorado, six people and attacker killed

SARAJEVO, (Patria) - An armed attacker acting alone killed five and wounded two people, including a police officer, on Monday in the US state of Colorado, after which he himself was killed in a confrontation with the police, US police announced.

The man fired at several locations in Denver and nearby Lakewood from Monday afternoon, police said at a late-night press conference.

The attacker first opened fire in a tattoo parlor in Denver, killing two women and wounding a man, the city's police added on Tuesday. He then went to a house in Denver, where he shot and killed a man with a fatal bullet.

After that, he headed to Lakewood, where he killed another man in a different tattoo parlor, police said, after which he entered a hotel, where he fired several shots at the woman working at the reception, who succumbed to her wounds.

Thanks to information gathered from the first attack, Lakewood police identified the perpetrator who intended to continue his bloody rampage. It is Lyndon James McLeod.

"Then there was another exchange of fire with our officers, and the attacker was shot," said John Romero, spokesman for the Lakewood Police Department, on Monday evening, adding that the perpetrator "was pronounced dead at the scene.".

A Lakewood police officer who was hit in the exchange and who shot the attacker will undergo surgery, but is "doing well," Romero said on Tuesday.

"According to our information, it seems the attacker was targeting specific individuals," Denver police said.

Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen said investigators have not yet determined the motive for the attack.

"We are at the beginning of the investigation," he said.

Shootings are a scourge that leaves numerous victims in the US, where the right to bear arms is guaranteed by the Constitution.