Man who lived through shootg at a gay bar 2000 has msage for other survivors - The Washgton Post

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• RONALD GAY WENT ON A SHOOTG RAMPAGE AT A GAY BAR. 22 YEARS LATER HE’S AD TOO.
• WHAT’S A NAME? MURR – RONALD GAY, A HATE CRIME SE
• RONALD GAY WENT ON A SHOOTG RAMPAGE AT A GAY BAR. 22 YEARS LATER HE’S AD TOO.
• MAN WHO OPENED FIRE ON ROANOKE GAY BAR TWO S AGO DI
• RONALD GAY
• MAN WHO LIVED THROUGH SHOOTG AT A GAY BAR 2000 HAS MSAGE FOR OTHER SURVIVORS
• RONALD IS GAY

RONALD GAY WENT ON A SHOOTG RAMPAGE AT A GAY BAR. 22 YEARS LATER HE’S AD TOO.

Ronald Gay — a former Mare who killed one man and jured six others his September 2000 shootg of the Backstreet Cafe gay bar Roanoke, Virgia — has died of natural as a prisoner a hospal. The shootg, which happened one week after the lol Pri ftival, was the last major gay bar shootg before the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shootg Orlando, Florida.

Related: Texas high school bans graphic novel on Pulse shootg over s “extreme homosexualy”. Late on Friday, September 22, 2000, Gay walked to the Backstreet Cafe and orred a beer. One of Gay’s bullets h 43-year-old hairdrser Danny Overstreet the cht, killg him wh mut, spe patrons’ efforts to save him.

WHAT’S A NAME? MURR – RONALD GAY, A HATE CRIME SE

Gay shot off a woman’s fger, shot Lda Conyers and Kathy Caldwell their hands. Gay then poted his silvery firearm at Sparks. After Gay left, the bar manager immediately locked the door.

Gay disposed of his firearm a trash n near the Virgia Mm of Transportatn bee, he said, he didn’t want to shoot any ps.

Half an hour before the shootg, Gay told an employee at another bar that he wanted to “go waste some faggots” and showed the man his gun.

RONALD GAY WENT ON A SHOOTG RAMPAGE AT A GAY BAR. 22 YEARS LATER HE’S AD TOO.

The man, thkg Gay was jokg, poted him towards another gay bar lled The Park, and then ntacted the police.

Police, who were swchg out om the eveng to graveyard shift, head towards The Park bar as Gay shot up the Backstreet Cafe. Gay was an unknown drifter who had stayed at a nearby motel named the Jefferson Lodge and mps around Roanoke Mounta.

Gay plead guilty to first-gree murr and six unts of malic woundg.

MAN WHO OPENED FIRE ON ROANOKE GAY BAR TWO S AGO DI

Murr – Ronald Gay, a hate crime se – Brief Article.

When Ronald Gay walked to the Backstreet Cafe, a bar Roanoke, Va., on September 22, police said he had murr on his md. The 53-year-old drifter had asked patrons at another bar for directns to the neart gay bar, sayg he wanted to shoot gay people. Staff at the bar lled the police after Gay showed them a gun.

Once at the Backstreet Cafe, Gay pulled out a ne-limeter handgun and fired at least eight rounds, killg Danny Lee Overstreet and woundg six other patrons. Police said Gay was apparently angry about beg teased bee of his name.

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MAN WHO LIVED THROUGH SHOOTG AT A GAY BAR 2000 HAS MSAGE FOR OTHER SURVIVORS

Gay has been charged wh first-gree murr and uld face the ath penalty. The trial uld put prosecutors an unual posn when to gay issu.

RONALD IS GAY

Ronald Gay — a 75-year-old former Mare who killed one man and jured six others his September 2000 shootg of the Backstreet Cafe gay bar Roanoke, Virgia — has died of natural as a prisoner a hospal. Gay was an unknown drifter who had stayed at a nearby motel named the Jefferson Lodge and mps at Roanoke Mounta.

Ronald Gay(None)Published: Jan. (WDBJ) - The man nvicted of openg fire at a Roanoke gay bar has Virgia Department of Correctns said Ronald Gay died of natural last Saturday at a was servg back-to-back life sentenc for the shootg at Backstreet Cafe Sept. Ronald Gay We found 100+ rerds for Ronald Gay OH, NC and 34 other stat.

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