Gunman Kills 11 at Disco in Colombia
A man whose offer to dance was spurned returned to a discotheque here in the Colombian capital early Saturday and fatally shot 11 people with an Uzi submachine gun, police said.
Five people were wounded in the attack at the Remicencias club.
“This was an act of intolerance by a drunken man,” city Police Chief Gen. Argemiro Serna said at a news conference, where he displayed a sketch of the assailant and offered a $7,500 reward for information.
Serna said the killer, a man in his 20s, left the bar in a huff after exchanging words with the male friends of the woman who turned him down. He then returned with two accomplices and opened fire.
Nine of the dead are men, and two are women. Their ages ranged from 19 to 35.
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