Shooter attack that killed 5 at Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub pleads guilty, gets life prison - CBS News

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• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• HERE ARE THE FIVE VICTIMS WHO WERE KILLED COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG
• US GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
• SHOOTER ATTACK THAT KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY NIGHTCLUB PLEADS GUILTY, GETS LIFE PRISON
• ‘PUMPG’ IS DANGERO NEW FAD AMONG GAY MEN
• WHO IS ANRSON LEE ALDRICH, SPECT MASS SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB?
• COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

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

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.

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

And I don’t mean jt gay people.

"Army vet who took down Colorado gunman says ‘I’m not a hero’ "I'm not a hero, " clared the Army veteran who helped subdue a gunman at a Colorado gay nightclub, addg that his thoughts are wh the fai of the five people sla. "Authori intify victims who were fatally shot at Club QAuthori Colorado Sprgs intified the five victims Tuday who were fatally wound at a gay nightclub over the weekend. — Richard Fierro, an Army veteran, was one of two people who tackled and subdued the gunman si a gay nightclub Saturday night Colorado Sprgs, endg a rampage that killed at least five people and jured 19 others, his wife said an terview at her home Monday afternoon, Jsi Fierro scribed her hband’s heroic efforts to prevent greater tragedy.

He was a member of the universy's GayStraight Alliance, Mabery said, and was "very active" the school's LGBTQ muny. A report released Augt by the Human Rights Campaign, the untry's largt LGBTQ rights group, and the non-ernmental anizatn Center for Counterg Digal Hate, found anti-LGBTQ rhetoric surged onle earlier this year the wake of the passage of Florida's Parental Rights Edutn Act, which crics have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" law.

US GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

Poet Jam Davis "proudly named [the book] after a gay bar Colorado Sprgs, " acrdg to his webse. We nmn the horrific vlence that shattered an eveng of celebratn for all the LGBTQ muny of Colorado Sprgs and our alli, " the nightclub said a statement released through the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD).

SHOOTER ATTACK THAT KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY NIGHTCLUB PLEADS GUILTY, GETS LIFE PRISON

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. 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.

‘PUMPG’ IS DANGERO NEW FAD AMONG GAY MEN

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. The man acced of killg five people and jurg more than a dozen others at a gay bar the US state of Colorado is facg prelimary murr and hate crime charg, several media outlets have reported, cg urt rerds. A vigil after the mass shootg at the Club Q gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colorado, November 20 [Kev Mohatt/Rters].

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. Club Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse.

WHO IS ANRSON LEE ALDRICH, SPECT MASS SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB?

Colorado Governor Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man to be elected a US ernor 2018, lled the shootg “sickeng”. Photographs of victims of a mass shootg at a gay nightclub are on display at a memorial on November 23, 2022, Colorado Sprgs, Colorado. Colorado Sprgs, the state’s send-most populo cy wh jt unr 500, 000 rints, is home to ary bas and the headquarters for Foc on the Fay, the nservative Christian group that says homosexualy and same-sex marriage are ss.

The spect the fatal shootg of five people at a Colorado gay nightclub changed his name more than six years ago as a teenager, after filg a legal petn Texas sayg he wanted to "protect himself" om a father wh a crimal 22-year-old spect, who fac murr and hate crime charg, was known as Nicholas Brk until 2016.

COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

Fd a list of LGBTQIA+ rourc at Trevor Project: The Trevor Project is the world's largt suici preventn and mental health anizatn for LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and qutng) young people. A year and a half before he was arrted the Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub shootg that left five people ad, Anrson Lee Aldrich allegedly threatened his mother wh a homema bomb, forcg neighbors surroundg hom to evacuate while the bomb squad and crisis negotiators talked him to spe that sre, there's no public rerd that prosecutors moved forward wh felony kidnappg and menacg charg agast Aldrich, or that police or relativ tried to trigger Colorado's "red flag" law that would have allowed thori to seize the weapons and ammo the man's mother says he had wh ntrol advot say Aldrich's June 2021 threat is an example of a red flag law ignored, wh potentially adly nsequenc. " The church prohibs same-sex marriag and says homosexual behavr vlat s laws.