Defense: Colorado gay club shootg spect is nonbary | AP News

Contents:

• DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY
• COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
• HERE ARE THE FIVE VICTIMS WHO WERE KILLED COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG
• SPECT IN SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY CLUB WILL PLEAD GUILTY AND ACCEPT LIFE SENTENCE, REPORT SAYS
• POLICE: GUNMAN KILLS 5 AT GAY CLUB, IS SUBDUED BY PATRONS
• GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
• COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM

DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY

(AP) — The alleged gunman facg possible hate crime charg the fatal shootg of five people at a Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub is nonbary, the spect’s fense team says urt several standard motns filed on behalf of Anrson Lee Aldrich on Tuday, public fenrs refer to the spect as “Mx. Addnally, a YouTube acunt was opened Brk’s name that clud an animatn tled “Asian homosexual gets molted.

COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

Speakg a vio statement released by UC Health Memorial Hospal, Ed Sanrs said he thought about what he would do a mass shootg after the 2016 massacre of 49 people at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida.

HERE ARE THE FIVE VICTIMS WHO WERE KILLED COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG

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.

SPECT IN SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY CLUB WILL PLEAD GUILTY AND ACCEPT LIFE SENTENCE, REPORT SAYS

Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to actn.The prev month, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his small Boise ngregatn that gay, lbian and transgenr people should be executed by the ernment, which led up wh siar sermons om a Texas fundamentalist pastor.Sce 2006, there have been 523 mass killgs and 2,727 aths as of Nov.

Mut before the start of Transgenr Day of Remembrance, which honors the memory of people killed acts of anti-transgenr vlence, a shooter sprayed gunfire si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people, jurg 18 and heighteng the fear and heartbreak felt over and over aga by the LGBTQ muny. Two weeks ago, The Denver Post reported on guidance issued by the Archdce of Denver advisg their Catholic schools not to enroll transgenr stunts and to treat gay parents of stunts differently than straight upl.

Days later, young transgenr stunts spoke before the State Board of Edutn, beggg the seven adults to clu LGBTQ history that had been stripped om proposed revisns to social study standards after Republin board members qutned whether kids learng about gay people was “doctratn” and likened children watchg a drag queen performance to “child abe. “You n draw a straight le om the false and vile rhetoric about LGBTQ people spread by extremists and amplified across social media, to the nearly 300 anti-LGBTQ bills troduced this year, to the dozens of attacks on our muny like this one, ” said Sarah Kate Ellis, print and CEO of GLAAD, the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn.

POLICE: GUNMAN KILLS 5 AT GAY CLUB, IS SUBDUED BY PATRONS

Three of those hate crim were anti-gay.

In Denver, 33 of 65 hate crim 2022 through September were anti-gay and two were anti-transgenr, the center found.

In 2021, 26 of 100 Denver hate crim were anti-gay and 2 were anti-transgenr. Richardson/medianews Group/the Denver Post Via Getty Imag | Denver Post | Getty ImagThe man spected of openg fire at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs was beg held on murr and hate crim charg Monday, two days after the attack that killed five people and left 17 others wh gunshot urt rerds showed that 22-year-old Anrson Lee Aldrich faced five murr charg and five charg of mtg a bias-motivated crime g bodily jury Saturday night's attack at Club Q. There's no public rerd prosecutors ever moved forward wh felony kidnappg and menacg charg agast shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.

GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

Police Chief Adrian Vasquez said patrons who tervened durg the attack were "heroic" and prevented more Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse.

Colorado Sprgs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez intified all five victims at a news nference Monday is what we know about Aston, an undated photo, was one of five people killed late Saturday when a gunman opened fire a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs. "In the gay muny, we ngregate together to make our fai. The spect who allegedly killed five people at a Colorado gay club before beg subdued by two revelers was intified Sunday as 22-year-old Anrson Lee Aldrich.

COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM

The shootg also brought back paful memori of the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre Orlando, Florida, when a Mlim man who had equented gay clubs the past and exprs disda for “filthy” members of the LGBTQ muny killed 49 people. Colorado Sprgs, the state’s send-most populo cy wh jt unr 500, 000 rints, is home to a number of ary bas and is the headquarters for Foc on the Fay, the nservative Christian group that says homosexualy and same-sex marriage are ss. He and his bs partner toured other succsful LGBTQ spac and noted a mon theme: “They were gay as hell, ” Grzecka told the outlet.

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.

While they don’t intify as a “gay bar” they still have every reason to stay on alert. “They’ve thrown threats around jt bee we are gay-owned and operated, ” Hooper said. Colorado gay nightclub shooter expected to strike plea al: ‘I have to take rponsibily’ (Associated Prs).