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.
Contents:
- WARNGS ON GAY CLUB SHOOTER STIR QUTNS ABOUT OLD SE
- SPECT GAY BAR SHOOTG FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
- US GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
- GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
- GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
- ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
WARNGS ON GAY CLUB SHOOTER STIR QUTNS ABOUT OLD SE
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SPECT GAY BAR SHOOTG FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
The shootg — which Colorado Sprgs Mayor John Suthers said “had all the appearanc of beg a hate crime” — relled a 2016 massacre when a gunman killed 49 people at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, before he was fatally shot by police.
Colorado Governor Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man to be elected a US ernor 2018, lled the shootg “sickeng”.
Hundreds of people have gathered a Colorado Sprgs park to honor five people killed and 17 wound a weekend shootg at a gay nightclub.
US GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
People embrace durg a ndlelight vigil on a rner near the se of a weekend mass shootg at a gay bar, late Monday, Nov. (AP) — The man spected of openg fire at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs was beg held on murr and hate crime charg Monday, while hundreds of people gathered to honor the five people killed and 17 wound the attack on a venue that for s was a sanctuary for the lol LGBTQ muny. Jeremiah Harris, who is 24 and gay, said he went to Club Q a uple tim a month and regnized one of the victims as the bartenr who always served him.
“Gay people have been here as long as people have been here, ” Harris said. It also rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. He was Black, gay and the 'origal' kg of rock and roll.
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GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
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. 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. A police officer ss their vehicle while rpondg to a mass shootg at the Club Q gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colorado, U. - ORLANDO, June 12, 2016 - A gunman fatally shot 49 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub, before he was shot ad by police.
GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
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