The shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.
Contents:
- GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
- SPECT MASS SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB IS EXPECTED TO TAKE A PLEA AL
- TWO BARMEN AMONG THE AD MASS SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO
- SPECT ADLY MASS SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB CHANGED NAME AS TEENAGER AFTER ALLEGED BULLYG, RERDS SHOW
GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
A 22-year-old gunman opened fire a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg more than two dozen jured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrted by police who were on the scene wh mut, thori said a news nference Sunday morng, Colorado Sprgs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez intified the spect as 22-year-old Anrson Lee Aldrich, who was beg treated for juri. "Flags will be lowered for 5 days to remember each of the 5 dividuals who lost their liv this sensels tragedy, " Polis Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a "Drag Diva Drag Show" on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse. Although a motive wasn't yet clear, nor were the genr inti of the victims, the cint me as anti-gay rhetoric has tensified by extremists.
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SPECT MASS SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB IS EXPECTED TO TAKE A PLEA AL
We knew we had to be gay as hell (to survive).
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TWO BARMEN AMONG THE AD MASS SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO
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SPECT ADLY MASS SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB CHANGED NAME AS TEENAGER AFTER ALLEGED BULLYG, RERDS SHOW
Onle gamg iends said Aldrich exprsed hatred for the police, LGBTQ people and mori and ed anti-Black and anti-gay slurs. And a police tective ttified that Aldrich sent an onle msage wh a photo of a rifle spe traed on a gay pri para. The spect the fatal shootg of five people at a Colorado gay nightclub changed his name more than six years ago as a teenager, after filg a legal petn Texas sayg he wanted to "protect himself" om a father wh a crimal 22-year-old spect, who fac murr and hate crime charg, was known as Nicholas Brk until 2016.
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