Man acced Colorado gay bar shootg facg murr and hate crime charg | PBS NewsHour

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• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM
• LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER
• GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM
• POLICE: GUNMAN KILLS 5 AT GAY CLUB, IS SUBDUED BY PATRONS
• GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
• STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED
• MAN ACCED COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG FACG MURR AND HATE CRIME CHARG

GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY

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COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM

Colorado Sprgs, the state’s send-most populo cy wh jt unr 500, 000 rints, is home to a number of ary bas and is the headquarters for Foc on the Fay, the nservative Christian group that says homosexualy and same-sex marriage are ss. He and his bs partner toured other succsful LGBTQ spac and noted a mon theme: “They were gay as hell, ” Grzecka told the outlet. We knew we had to be gay as hell (to survive).

Jared Polis, a Democrat and the natn’s first openly gay ernor, issued a statement Sunday llg the attack “horrific, sickeng and vastatg” and offered state rourc to lol law enforcement. Polis told CNN’s Jim Asta there are only two gay bars Colorado Sprgs, and Club Q was one of the ma venu.

A 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrted by police who arrived wh mut, thori said spect the Saturday night shootg at Club Q ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon, a law enforcement official said. Suthers said there was "reason to hope" that all of those hospalized would shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. He said patrons who tervened durg the attack were "heroic" and owed a bt of gratu for preventg more Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse.

LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER

Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, lled the shootg "sickeng.

Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to prev month, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his small Boise ngregatn that gay, lbian and transgenr people should be executed by the ernment, which led up wh siar sermons om a Texas fundamentalist 2006, there have been 523 mass killgs and 2, 727 aths as of Nov. Aldrich often ed homophobic slurs, prosecutors said, and once posted a photo on social media of a rifle spe aimed at a gay rights para. Colorado Sprgs police tective Jason Gasper ttified that a search of Aldrich’s apartment unvered shootg targets riddled wh bullet hol, wh one target featurg rabow-lored ncentric circl - a sign remiscent of rabow-striped gay pri flags - surroundg the bullseye.

GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM

”The killgs rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. ”Xavier Krs, a former iend and neighbor of Aldrich’s, told NBC News that the shooter had not ed they/them pronouns the past, addg that Aldrich had ma racist or homophobic statements and created an onle fom to exprs a bizarre, ramblg terview wh CBS 8 San Diego, Aldrich’s father, Aaron Brk, admted that he didn’t even know his child was still livg when he heard the news of the shootg.

POLICE: GUNMAN KILLS 5 AT GAY CLUB, IS SUBDUED BY PATRONS

I was like ‘Oh, my God, sh, is he gay? ’ And he’s not gay, ” Brk told the TV statn. DENVER (AP) — The spect acced of enterg a Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub and killg five people and woundg 17 others was formally charged wh hate crim as well as murr on Tuday.

AP’s earlier story follows (AP) — The spect acced of enterg a Colorado gay nightclub clad body armor and openg fire wh an AR-15-style rifle, killg five people and woundg 17 others, is set to appear urt aga Tuday to learn what charg prosecutors will pursue the attack, cludg possible hate crime unts. In fact, the people who were most at risk – this se, gay men who met for hook-ups at New York Cy bars that served the muny – were given no staed or amplified warngs by eher the thori or the media, creatg a safe space for the murrer to ntue to wreak havoc. In fact, the se got so ltle attentn relative to s horror that today few remember , even wh the gay, three s after the murrs, journalist Elon Green has wrten a book tled Last Call: A Te Story of Love, Lt, and Murr Queer New York that go beyond the facts of the story to reveal the larger issu that surround them.

GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

Worse, that perd reprented the height of ignorance and fear about Aids, as well as the peak ath toll the gay muny the wt, greatly impactg how the muny was viewed. “Aids took what was, at bt, a level of difference towards gay people and turned to revulsn, ” said Green.

STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED

Between 1987 and 1994 the cy saw a greater number of killgs than any other stretch more than half a that benighted era, gay bars were often ‘the one refuge om the perils of everyday life’, says Green. ’ Photograph: Wonwoo Lee/Getty Imag/Image SourceI n speak to the equency of vlence the gay muny back then.

In that same time ame, a close iend was gay-bashed to unnscns by a gang of young men, g a days-long stay the hospal, and I was punched so hard the stomach outsi a gay dance club I thought the guy mt have ed a hammer.

Several years later, on a sunny day on Christopher Street (then the center of New York’s gay life), a man g an anti-gay ephet smashed my bt iend the head wh a rock. ”Meanwhile, the officer did story at the re of Last Call ptur a time the cy, and the liv of gay men, that seem far removed om the current one. Back that benighted era, gay bars were often “the one refuge om the perils of everyday life”, said Green.

MAN ACCED COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG FACG MURR AND HATE CRIME CHARG

At the same time, was a particular type of gay man equentg a specific kd of bar, who tend to be the victim this se. As to why he elud jtice the s, Green said, “most likely the jury believed that this was a gay man attackg another gay man and they didn’t re about the circumstanc. Given a chance to acqu, they took ” the same time, Green said that he “ultimately realized that the killer (who was himself gay) was laborg unr the same societal nstrats his victims were.

While Green believed homophobia played a major part that, he also said “cisns that law enforcement ma ntributed to the long lay. The spect acced of enterg a Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub and killg five people and woundg 17 others was formally charged wh 305 crimal unts cludg hate crim and murr. Authori say a 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons.