COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — As bullets tore through a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and woundg many more, one patron who’d been partyg moments before shed to actn, grabbg a handgun om the spect, htg him wh and png him down until police arrived jt mut later.
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- GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
- MUGSHOT OF COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT SHOWS JURI STAED DURG NONTATN WH 'HEROIC PEOPLE'
- AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY
- SPECT INTIFIED GAY NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE
- GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
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MUGSHOT OF COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT SHOWS JURI STAED DURG NONTATN WH 'HEROIC PEOPLE'
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AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY
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SPECT INTIFIED GAY NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE
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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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GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
The victims of a shootg at a gay club Colorado have spoken out about their oral. 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. ”The killgs rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.