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- GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT EVAD COLORADO’S RED FLAG GUN LAW
- 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
* shooting at a gay club *
DENVER (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. ”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. ”County Sheriff Bill Elr has said his office would wa for fay members to ask a urt for surrenr orrs and not petn for them on s own acrd, unls there were “exigent circumstanc” and “probable e” of a tape is set up near a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colo., Sunday, Nov.
GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
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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. Polis told CNN’s Jim Asta there are only two gay bars Colorado Sprgs, and Club Q was one of the ma venu.
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