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

Days later, young transgenr stunts spoke before the State Board of Edutn, beggg the seven adults to clu LGBTQ history that had been stripped om proposed revisns to social study standards after Republin board members qutned whether kids learng about gay people was “doctratn” and likened children watchg a drag queen performance to “child abe. “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. In 2021, 26 of 100 Denver hate crim were anti-gay and 2 were anti-transgenr.

WATCH | Patrons held shooter until help arrived, police say: Colorado nightclub shootg leav 5 ad; patrons subdue gunmanAt least five people are ad after a shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado. Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-LGBTQ 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 arrted Ontar after mass shootg threats ma toward Florida LGBTQ event: policeLGBTQ teen dance Sydney, N. Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, said the news was "sickeng.

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

Colorado Sprgs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez intified all five victims at a news nference Monday is what we know about Aston, an undated photo, was one of five people killed late Saturday when a gunman opened fire a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs.

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

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.

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COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

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. Richardson/medianews Group/the Denver Post Via Getty Imag | Denver Post | Getty ImagThe man spected of openg fire at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs was beg held on murr and hate crim charg Monday, two days after the attack that killed five people and left 17 others wh gunshot urt rerds showed that 22-year-old Anrson Lee Aldrich faced five murr charg and five charg of mtg a bias-motivated crime g bodily jury Saturday night's attack at Club Q.

There's no public rerd prosecutors ever moved forward wh felony kidnappg and menacg charg agast shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. 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.