Posted on 02/21/2007 2:49:07 PM PST by Kitten Festival
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) -- Two clowns were shot and killed by an unidentified gunman during their performance at a traveling circus in the eastern Colombian town of Cucuta, police said Wednesday.
The gunman burst into the Circo del Sol de Cali on Monday night and shot the clowns in front of an audience of 20 to 50 people, local police chief Jose Humberto Henao told Reuters.
One of the clowns was killed instantly, and the second died the next day in hospital.
"The killings had nothing to do with the show the victims were performing at the time of the incident," Henao said in a telephone interview. "We are investigating the motive."
With an entrance fee of under 50 cents, Circo del Sol de Cali attracts mostly poor Colombians. It pitched its tents in Cucuta, near the border with Venezuela, earlier this month.
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Killing with a banana would have been more tragic.
died laughing?
Sounds like a Chavez hit to me.
it's all fun and games till someone kills a clown.
Hope they catch the bozos who did this.
THIS IS NOT FUNNY!
But then, I've never thought clowns were funny.
I Pagliaci
Clowns aren't funny.
Shootings aren't funny.
Shooting a clown is friggen hilarious.
give the perps a polka-dot "columbian necktie".
At first glance at the title, I thought Sheehan and McKinny were the victims.
Canio with a gun?
Wow. Someone can't take a joke.
I'd spray them with a very strong seltzer to discourage them from ever trying a stunt like this again.
Their new act was really a hit...
Just wait till their homies show up, all thirty of them in one little car.
Several mimes have been interviewed about the shooting, but they're not talking.
As we say at work, "The clowns may change, but the circus remains the same"...
I always thought that when fighting clowns, ya go for the jugular.
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