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
• MAN ARRTED NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS SAID WAS ‘REVENGE’ ON BEHALF OF FEMALE IEND
• MAN ACCED COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG FACG MURR AND HATE CRIME CHARG
• FIVE KILLED, AT LEAST 18 INJURED SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY BAR
• COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
• HORROR ON OSLO PRI DAY AS GUNMAN GO ON ADLY RAMPAGE AT GAY BAR
• AT LEAST FIVE PEOPLE KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS
• SPECT INTIFIED GAY NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE

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

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MAN ARRTED NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS SAID WAS ‘REVENGE’ ON BEHALF OF FEMALE IEND

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.

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

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FIVE KILLED, AT LEAST 18 INJURED SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY BAR

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COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

Erik Bottcher, the cy uncil member reprentg Hell's Kchen, has joed other officials over the last week to warn that one or more people are dggg and robbg gay men the rponse to those attacks and the Colorado shootg, the Anti-Vlence Project, a non-prof group found 1980 after a spate of attacks on gay men, plans to hold a safety event at a Hell's Kchen gay bar on Wednday night. Volunteers will talk wh staff and patrons about ways to heighten vigilance bars, on hook-up and datg apps, and wh partners at attack on the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando six years ago, durg which a man shot ad 49 people, forced many bars to review their secury plans. In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott has said he is tryg to protect children om abe by prohibg many typ of genr-affirmg medil re for Lentz, a -owner of Stonewall Inn, the se of the 1969 rts that talyzed the gay liberatn movement, echoed others the dtry sayg venu are reachg the lims of what physil fens n achieve.

HORROR ON OSLO PRI DAY AS GUNMAN GO ON ADLY RAMPAGE AT GAY BAR

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AT LEAST FIVE PEOPLE KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS

Colorado ernor Jared Polis, the untry’s first openly gay ernor, lled the attack “horrific, sickeng, and vastatg. Saturday night’s attack was the adlit mass shootg targetg a gay nightclub the U.

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SPECT INTIFIED GAY NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE

The shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. Club Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse.

Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man to be elected a U. At least five people have been killed and 18 jured a shootg at a gay bar Colorado Saturday shootg took place at Club Q loted Colorado Sprgs near midnight Saturday, lol law enforcement spokperson noted. ” “This lawls vlence needs to end and end quickly, ” she attack has drawn parisons to the 2016 Pulse shootg Orlando that targeted a lol gay bar on a Saturday night as FBI announced Sunday morng that will be assistg the lol police partment’s vtigatn to the matter.