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• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• AT LEAST FIVE PEOPLE KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS
• TWO BARMEN AMONG THE AD MASS SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO
• POLICE: GUNMAN KILLS 5 AT GAY CLUB, IS SUBDUED BY PATRONS
• DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY
• COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM

GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY

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AT LEAST FIVE PEOPLE KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS

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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. 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 spect the Saturday night shootg at Club Q ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon, a law enforcement official said.

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TWO BARMEN AMONG THE AD MASS SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO

Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, lled the shootg "sickeng. Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to 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 2006, there have been 523 mass killgs and 2, 727 aths as of Nov. A 22-year-old gunman opened fire a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg more than two dozen jured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrted by police who were on the scene wh mut, thori said a news nference Sunday morng, Colorado Sprgs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez intified the spect as 22-year-old Anrson Lee Aldrich, who was beg treated for juri.

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

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"Club Q has been a safe haven for the LGBTQ muny an area where hasn't always been easy, " Polis, who beme the first openly gay ernor the U. The alleged shooter facg possible hate crime charg the fatal shootg of five people at a Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub was orred held whout bail an ial urt appearance Wednday.

DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY

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COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM

(AP) — The alleged shooter facg possible hate crime charg the fatal shootg of five people at a Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub was orred held whout bail an ial urt appearance Wednday as the spect sat slumped over a chair. He said his first reactn was to qutn why Aldrich was at a gay bar. Addnally, a YouTube acunt was opened Brk’s name that clud an animatn tled “Asian homosexual gets molted.

In a vio statement, 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. ”The killgs rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. " He was taken to police ctody shortly after the shootg began and was beg treated for juri, acrdg to shootg was remiscent of the 2016 Pulse club massacre, when a gunman killed 49 people at the gay nightclub of that name Orlando, Florida, before he was fatally shot by unfold as LGBTQ muni and alli around the world prepared to mark the Transgenr Day of Remembrance on Sunday, an annual observance to honor victims of transphobic Q, a long-tablished venue a most strip mall, was scribed by many as a safe haven for the LGBTQ muny Colorado's send-largt of the victims was intified as Daniel Aston, 28, a transgenr man and bartenr at the club who also performed shows as a dancer, acrdg to a Colorado Public Rad terview wh his mother, Sabra Aston.

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