Colorado Gay Bar Shootg Spect Intifi as ‘Nonbary,’ Lawyers Say

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• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
• COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT INTIFI AS ‘NONBARY,’ LAWYERS SAY

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

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

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 spect who allegedly killed five people at a Colorado gay club before beg subdued by two revelers was intified Sunday as 22-year-old Anrson Lee Aldrich. The shootg also brought back paful memori of the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre Orlando, Florida, when a Mlim man who had equented gay clubs the past and exprs disda for “filthy” members of the LGBTQ muny killed 49 people.

The spect acced of shootg five people and jurg more than a dozen others at a gay bar Colorado Sprgs intifi as nonbary and they/them pronouns, the alleged shooter’s public fenrs said a urt filg on Tuday.

— Alexandria Os-Cortez (@AOC) November 20, 2022“The attack on a gay-oriented nightspot immediately raised worri about any nnectn to the untry’s rrosive cultural nflicts, ” the Washgton Post reported.

COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

The shootg six years after the 2016 massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, which left 49 people ad and dozens advot spoke out agast the shootg and support of the victims Sunday. ”Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who as a ndidate the 2020 printial electn beme the first openly gay ndidate to n for the natn’s hight office, lled the news of the shootg “sickeng and heartbreakg” and part of a “pattern” a tweet Sunday. Jared Polis, who 2018 was the first openly gay man elected ernor and is currently quarantg wh Covid, lled the shootg "horrific, sickeng, and vastatg" a statement released Sunday morng.

COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT INTIFI AS ‘NONBARY,’ LAWYERS SAY