‘People don’t have control': Community reacts after 1 woman died in a shooting early New Year’s Day in Colorado Springs

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - Colorado Springs Police are investigating a shooting death that occurred just after midnight on New Year’s Day.

Around 12:30 a.m. on Wednesday, police say they received a call that someone was shot on Oakwood Blvd. When officers arrived, they found a woman with at least one gunshot wound dead in the road.

Police are investigating this as a homicide. They believe everyone involved was known to each other. At this time, no suspect has been identified or is in custody.

Longtime residents in the community who say they have lived there or 24 years reacted to the situation.

“They want power and that’s what guns give. They give power and they don’t know how to control it...There’s just too much anger. Too much that’s going on that people don’t have control of themselves.,” said David, a neighbor.

A neighbor 11 News spoke with says they were first alerted of the shooting when they heard a loud thud in their room. They then found out a bullet had gone through their wall and was found inside a shoebox in their closet.

Another neighbor in the community says they knew the woman personally who died due to attending the same high school. She says the woman was a great person and worked as a barber.