Serial killer who preyed on gay men, was dubbed 'I-95 killer' is executed Florida

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• SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA
• MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS

SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA

A 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrted by police who arrived wh mut, thori said Sunday.The spect the Saturday night shootg at Club Q ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon, a law enforcement official said. Some were hurt tryg to flee, and was unclear if all of the victims were shot, a police spokperson said.Suthers said there was "reason to hope" that all of those hospalized would rever.The shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.

He said patrons who tervened durg the attack were "heroic" and owed a bt of gratu for preventg more aths.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 the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, lled the shootg "sickeng.""My heart breaks for the fay and iends of those lost, jured and trmatized," Polis said.

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MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS

We knew we had to be gay as hell (to survive). Jared Polis, a Democrat and the natn’s first openly gay ernor, issued a statement Sunday llg the attack “horrific, sickeng and vastatg” and offered state rourc to lol law enforcement.

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357 Magnum pistol, cludg three fal, and fatal, skull-cshg an tercepted jail letter McKney wrote to Shepard's other attacker, Rsell Henrson, while the two were awag trial, McKney ed a gay slur to scribe Shepard. "Why there are discrepanciWhether due to nonexistent laws or nsistent reportg, lol law enforcement agenci rarely report LGBTQ aths to feral thori that track hate crim — even if the killer ed slurs, rpond vlently to rmatn that a person was gay or transgenr, or showed signs of overkill. Many of the aths noted earlier reports didn’t clu nam, but we were able to gather nam for most victims by piecg together intifyg rmatn om other reports, cludg media reportg advocy studi and police, we searched through several reports and onle listgs of LGBTQ murr victims, cludg Gay History Wiki, Internatnal Transgenr Day of Remembrance, In Memoriam: Lbian Murr Victims, Unerased: Countg Transgenr Liv, the Genr Public Advocy Coaln’s 50 Unr 30 report and a Human Rights Campaign report documentg hate crim between 1998 and 2002.