Here are the five victims who were killed Colorado gay nightclub shootg

Contents:

• DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY
• HERE ARE THE FIVE VICTIMS WHO WERE KILLED COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG
• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT EVAD COLORADO'S RED FLAG GUN LAW
• COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY

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HERE ARE THE FIVE VICTIMS WHO WERE KILLED COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG

“You n draw a straight le om the false and vile rhetoric about LGBTQ people spread by extremists and amplified across social media, to the nearly 300 anti-LGBTQ bills troduced this year, to the dozens of attacks on our muny like this one, ” said Sarah Kate Ellis, print and CEO of GLAAD, the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn. Three of those hate crim were anti-gay. In Denver, 33 of 65 hate crim 2022 through September were anti-gay and two were anti-transgenr, the center found.

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

In 2021, 26 of 100 Denver hate crim were anti-gay and 2 were anti-transgenr.

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GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT EVAD COLORADO'S RED FLAG GUN LAW

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COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

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A Colorado Sprgs muny service vehicle is parked near a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colo., Sunday, Nov. Police say a 22-year-old gunman opened fire at the gay nightclub, Club Q, killg several people and leavg multiple people jured before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons. (AP Photo/Geneva Heffernan) The Associated PrsBy BERNARD CONDON and COLLEEN SLEVIN, Associated PrsDENVER (AP) — A year and a half before he was arrted the Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub shootg that left five people ad, Anrson Lee Aldrich allegedly threatened his mother wh a homema bomb, forcg neighbors surroundg hom to evacuate while the bomb squad and crisis negotiators talked him to spe that sre, there’s no public rerd that prosecutors moved forward wh felony kidnappg and menacg charg agast Aldrich, or that police or relativ tried to trigger Colorado’s “red flag" law that would have allowed thori to seize the weapons and ammo the man’s mother says he had wh ntrol advot say Aldrich’s June 2021 threat is an example of a red flag law ignored, wh potentially adly nsequenc.