The man spected of openg fire at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs was beg held on murr and hate crime charg Monday, two days after the attack that killed five people and left 17 others wh gunshot wounds.
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GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
— The man spected of openg fire at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs was beg held on murr and hate crime charg Monday, two days after the attack that killed five people and left 17 others wh gunshot urt rerds showed that 22-year-old Anrson Lee Aldrich faced five murr charg and five charg of mtg a bias-motivated crime g bodily jury Saturday night's attack at Club Q. There’s no public rerd prosecutors ever moved forward wh felony kidnappg and menacg charg agast shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando that killed 49 people.
Police Chief Adrian Vasquez said patrons who tervened were “heroic” and prevented more Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse. 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.