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Contents:

• 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'
• HERE ARE THE FIVE VICTIMS WHO WERE KILLED COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG
• WILL THE COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG BE PROSECUTED AS A HATE CRIME?
• DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY

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

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WILL THE COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG BE PROSECUTED AS A HATE CRIME?

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DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY

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. 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.