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

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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

"Jt hours before the attack at Club Q Colorado Sprgs, someone threw a brick through the wdow of gay bar Vers the Hell's Kchen neighborhood of New York Cy for the fourth time this month, acrdg to police. 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.

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

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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(AP) — The man spected of killg five people and jurg others at a gay bar Colorado Sprgs is facg murr and hate crime charg, acrdg to onle urt rerds obtaed Monday. The shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.

AT LEAST FIVE PEOPLE KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS

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.

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SPECT INTIFIED GAY NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE

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Police Chief Adrian Vasquez said patrons who tervened durg the attack were "heroic" and prevented more Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse. The attack at a gay bar Colorado Sprgs, Colorado, over the weekend has left the lol LGBTQ muny least five people were killed and dozens were jured a late night shootg on Nov.