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• COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM
• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB SHOOTER’S SE HEADS TO TRIAL

COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM

Aldrich, the spect acced of enterg a Colorado gay nightclub clad body armor and openg fire wh an AR-15-style rifle, killg five people and woundg 17 others, was charged by prosecutors Tuday wh 305 crimal unts cludg hate crim and murr. (AP) — The spect acced of enterg a Colorado gay nightclub clad body armor and openg fire wh an AR-15-style rifle, killg five people and woundg 17 others, was charged by prosecutors Tuday wh 305 crimal unts cludg hate crim and unts agast Anrson Lee Aldrich clu 48 hate crime charg, one for each person known to have been the club at the time. 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.

Suthers said there was "reason to hope" that all of those hospalized would 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 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.

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

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 man who has been lled a hero for helpg subdue the spect the adly Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub mass shootg has spoken out about what he experienced si the venue. Muny is on edge after the Moon for The New York TimOn Saturday, revelry at a gay bar Manhattan was terpted for the fourth time this month by someone throwg a brick at s plate-glass wdows at the bar, VERS, are shatterproof, so the attacks have not jured anyone, said s owner, David DeParola.

COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB SHOOTER’S SE HEADS TO TRIAL

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The crowd at Club Q on Saturday night was celebratg Transgenr Day of Remembrance, an annual memoratn that unrsr the grave danger that transgenr, genr-nonnformg and gay people who openly embrace their inti n face. ETColorado Sprgs’s gay muny mourns iends, and a sense of Healy/The New York TimCOLORADO SPRINGS — The grief swirlg through Colorado Sprgs’s tight-kn L. Another gay bar downtown had closed mourng as vigils took place across the the workers at Shuga’s cid they would serve dner a kd of fiant love for their muny, which has not always felt wele the unty, a nservative area that was once a center of anti-gay activism.

The staff pned black ribbons set agast a rabow background to their kchen they poured cktails and served up salads and almond ke, they hugged and shared their memori about the victims of the shootg, and talked about how their sense of secury Colorado Sprgs’s small but creasgly visible gay muny now felt shattered. It was like: Hey, se I fot, I’m still gay.