Mass shootg at Orlando gay club Pulse: The latt - CBS News

Contents:

• AT LEAST 5 KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS, POLICE SAY
• MUGSHOT OF COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT SHOWS JURI STAED DURG NONTATN WH 'HEROIC PEOPLE'
• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• OWNER OF GAY CLUB: SHOOTG AMID A NEW ‘TYPE OF HATE’
• COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM
• GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT EVAD COLORADO'S RED FLAG GUN LAW
• MASS SHOOTG AT ORLANDO GAY CLUB: THE LATT

AT LEAST 5 KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS, POLICE SAY

— A gunman opened fire a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colo., killg five people and jurg 18 before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons and arrted by police who arrived on the scene wh about five mut, police said firearms, cludg a “long rifle, ” were found at the scene at Club Q, said Colorado Sprgs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez. Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, said the news was “sickeng. ”Although a motive the shootg wasn’t yet clear, nor were the genr inti of the victims, the cint me as anti-gay rhetoric has tensified by extremists.

MUGSHOT OF COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT SHOWS JURI STAED DURG NONTATN WH 'HEROIC PEOPLE'

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

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The victims of a shootg at a gay club Colorado have spoken out about their oral. 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.

OWNER OF GAY CLUB: SHOOTG AMID A NEW ‘TYPE OF HATE’

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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COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM

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.

GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT EVAD COLORADO'S RED FLAG GUN LAW

Polis told CNN’s Jim Asta there are only two gay bars Colorado Sprgs, and Club Q was one of the ma venu. (AP) — The -owner of the Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub where a shooter turned a drag queen’s birthday celebratn to a massacre said he thks the shootg that killed five people and jured 17 others is a reflectn of anti-LGBTQ sentiment that has evolved om prejudice to cement. Cy and state officials have offered support and Print Joe Bin and First Lady Jill Bin reached out to Grzecka and -owner Matthew Hayn on Thursday to offer ndolenc and reerate their support for the muny, as well as their mment to fightg back agast hate and gun Q opened after the only other gay bar Colorado Sprgs at that time shuttered, Grzecka said, scribg that era as an evolutn of gay bars.

(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. DENVER (AP) — 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. Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has claimed rponsibily for the attack early Sunday morng at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida that left at least 50 ad and 53 jured.

MASS SHOOTG AT ORLANDO GAY CLUB: THE LATT

""We beg om Ameri, where Allah has enabled brother Omar Mateen, one of the soldiers of the Caliphate Ameri, to rry out a raid where he was able to filtrate a Csars' gatherg at a gay night club Orlando, Florida. "Congrsman Adam Schiff says he's been briefed multiple tim by feral law enforcement about Omar Mateen, who opened fire early Sunday on a gay club, killg at least 50 people and woundg another 53.

The Uned Stat, people are gatherg at vigils honorg the victims of a shootg attack at a gay nightclub Orlando that left 50 people ad and 53 Miami Beach, mourners l ndl, embraced and waived rabow flags Sunday eveng. Among them was Chigo Police Supertennt Eddie Johnson, who said the cy has stepped up secury gay muni.

"The vlence is not normal, and the targetg of our lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr Amerins is evil and abhorrent, " Bin said.