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• AT LEAST 5 KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS, POLICE SAY
• SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO LEAV 5 DEAD, 18 INJURED
• AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY
• PHOTOS: 5 KILLED AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE AT GAY NIGHTCLUB
• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• SPECT ADLY CLUB Q GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG CLAIMS TO INTIFY AS NONBARY
• MUGSHOT OF COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT SHOWS JURI STAED DURG NONTATN WH 'HEROIC PEOPLE'
• GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
• 50 AD, ISLAMIC TERRORISM TIE EYED ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG
• COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM
• FLORIDA MLIMS EXPRS DPAIR AND FSTRATN OVER GAY NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE
• GAY MUNICH
• 49 KILLED AT PULSE GAY CLUB ORLANDO; DEADLIT MASS SHOOTG U.S. HISTORYABSOLUTE EVILOMAR MATEEN SHOT MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE EARLY SUNDAY THE ADLIT SHOOTG ATTACK AMERIN HISTORY. GION RNICKPOLIL REPORTERJT MILLERUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 7:42PM EDT STEVE NI / RTERSTHE ADLIT MASS SHOOTG MORN AMERIN HISTORY KILLED 49 PEOPLE AFTER A GUNMAN ATTACKED A GAY DANCE CLUB ORLANDO, FLORIDA.OMAR MATEEN, OF PORT ST. LUCIE, FLORIDA, SHOT HIS WAY TO PULSE NIGHTCLUB AT 2 A.M. SUNDAY WH AN ASSLT RIFLE, ORLANDO POLICE ANNOUNCED SUNDAY. MATEEN REPORTEDLY TOOK HOSTAGE SEVERAL PATRONS WHO WERE HIDG A BATHROOM. A SWAT UN ENTERED THE CLUB AT 6 A.M. AND KILLED MATEEN WHAT WAS SCRIBED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT AS A STAED GUN BATTLE. PHOTOS: SCEN OM THE MASS SHOOTG AT ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB MATEEN ED AN “AR-15-STYLE ASSLT RIFLE,” ORLANDO POLICE CHIEF JOHN MA SAID. THE AR-15 HAS BEEN THE SIGNATURE WEAPON OF MASS SHOOTERS AMERI, ED BY ADAM LANZA TO KILL 26 AT SANDY HOOK AND THE SAN BERNARDO TERRORISTS TO KILL 14. THE ATTACK IS BEG VTIGATED AS AN ACT OF DOMTIC TERRORISM. REP. ADAM SCHIFF, THE TOP DEMOCRAT ON THE HOE PERMANENT SELECT COMMTEE ON INTELLIGENCE, TOLD CNN THAT, ACRDG TO HOMELAND SECURY AND LOL LAW-ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS, MATEEN “MA A PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE” TO THE ISLAMIC STATE TERROR GROUP AND HAD BEEN “HEARD PRAYG A FOREIGN LANGUAGE.” IT IS UNCLEAR IF MATEEN WAS PRAYG DIBLY DURG THE SHOOTG, SCHIFF SAID. PETE WILLIAMS OF NBC NEWS REPORTED THAT MATEEN LLED A 911 EMERGENCY LE AND SWORE HIS ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS LEAR ABU BAKR AL-BAGHDADI BEFORE THE MASSACRE.MATEEN’S FATHER, MIR SEDDIQUE, TOLD NBC NEWS THE ATTACK “HAS NOTHG TO DO WH RELIGN.” HE WENT ON TO SAY HIS SON GOT ANGRY WHEN HE SAW TWO MEN KISSG MIAMI A FEW MONTHS AGO. “WE ARE SAYG WE ARE APOLOGIZG FOR THE WHOLE CINT. WE WEREN’T AWARE OF ANY ACTN HE IS TAKG. WE ARE SHOCK LIKE THE WHOLE UNTRY,” SEDDIQUE SAID. ACRDG TO ACUNTS OM THE SCENE, THE GUNMAN TRAD GUNFIRE WH A POLICE OFFICER BEFORE ENTERG PULSE AT 2 A.M. MOST OF THE TIMATED 320 PEOPLE SI PED, BUT AN UNKNOWN NUMBER WERE TAKEN HOSTAGE A BATHROOM. ORLANDO MAYOR BUDDY DYER TOLD CNN THE ATH TOLL JUMPED OM 20 TO 50 AS ADDNAL VICTIMS WERE FOUND SI THE CLUB. PERSONNEL ULD NOT GO IMMEDIATELY AS EXPLOSIV WERE SPECTED TO HAVE BEEN HIDN. ACRDG TO DYER, THERE WERE FIVE TO EIGHT HOSTAG ONE ROOM WH THE SHOOTER AND AN ADDNAL 15 TO 20 A SEPARATE ROOM AT THE TIME WHEN POLICE ENTERED. MA JTICE SAID HER SON EDDIE WAS SI THE CLUB AND TEXTED HER WHEN THE GUNSHOTS EPTED, THE ASSOCIATED PRS REPORTED. JTICE TOLD HIS MOM HE AND OTHERS RAN TO THE BATHROOM TO HI.“HE’S G,” JTICE TEXTED, ADDG LATER: “HE HAS , AND HE’S HERE WH .”“THAT WAS THE LAST NVERSATN,” HIS MOTHER SAID.PULSE WAS FOUND 2004 BY BARBARA POMA AND HER IEND RON LEGLER AFTER POMA’S BROTHER DIED OF AIDS, ACRDG TO USA TODAY. SHE WANTED TO HELP PROMOTE AWARENS ABOUT THE LGBT MUNY, AND PULSE REFERS TO SELF AS “NOT JT ANOTHER GAY CLUB.”AS SOON AS THE SHOOTG BROKE OUT, THE CLUB POSTED A STAT UPDATE TO S FACEBOOK PAGE TELLG EVERYONE TO GET OUT AND “KEEP NNG.” “AS SOON AS WE HAVE ANY RMATN WE WILL UPDATE EVERYONE,” THE CLUB POSTED ON S FACEBOOK PAGE AT 6 A.M. SUNDAY. “PLEASE KEEP EVERYONE YOUR PRAYERS AS WE WORK THROUGH THIS TRAGIC EVENT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR THOUGHTS AND LOVE.”SUNDAY MORNG’S MASSACRE ME BARELY 36 HOURS AFTER A MAN SHOT AND KILLED SGER CHRISTA GRIMMIE WHILE SHE WAS SIGNG TOGRAPHS ORLANDO. THE KILLER, KEV LOIBL, WAS TACKLED BY GRIMMIE’S BROTHER AND THEN KILLED HIMSELF.PRINT OBAMA ADDRSED THE NATN LATER THE AFTERNOON, SEEMGLY FEATED BY HAVG TO MAKE THE SPEECH SO MANY TIM. “WE HAVE TO CI IF THAT’S THE UNTRY WE WANT TO BE. TO ACTIVELY DO NOTHG IS A CISN AS WELL,” HE SAID A SHORT ADDRS WHILE EMPHASIZG THAT AN ATTACK ON THE LGBT MUNY IS AN ATTACK ON “ALL OF .”READ MORE VERAGE OF THE MASSACRE AT THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB GION RNICK

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.

Club Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a “Drag Diva Drag Show” on Saturdays, acrdg to s addn to the drag show, Club Q’s Facebook page said planned entertament clud a “punk and alternative show” precedg a birthday dance party, wh a Sunday “all ag bnch. Air Force Amy, as well as Foc on the Fay, a proment evangelil Christian November 2015, three people were killed and eight wound at a Planned Parenthood clic the cy when thori say a man opened fire bee he wanted to wage “war” on the clic bee performed shootg brought back memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., that killed 49 people.

SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO LEAV 5 DEAD, 18 INJURED

-elect Eric Sorensen, who is Illois’ first out gay ngrsman, tweeted that “we mt e loud voic to stand up agast hate. 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 have been 523 mass killgs sce 2006 rultg 2, 727 aths as of Nov.

AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY

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.

A 22-year-old gunman opened fire a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, 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 Sunday (Nov.

PHOTOS: 5 KILLED AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE AT GAY NIGHTCLUB

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. Club Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a “Drag Diva Drag Show” on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse. The shootg brought back memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.

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

-elect Eric Sorensen, who is Illois’ first openly gay ngrsman, tweeted that “we mt e loud voic to stand up agast hate. Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to actn. The 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 pastor.

— -- The massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub early this morng has been scribed as a "domtic terror cint, " wh at least 50 ad and 53 jured, officials said, makg the worst mass shootg U.

SPECT ADLY CLUB Q GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG CLAIMS TO INTIFY AS NONBARY

Orlando police tweeted, "The shooter si the nightclub is ad, " referrg to Pulse Nightclub, which bills self on s webse as "Orlando's Premier Gay Night Club.

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

"It's no cince the attack took place where did and when did, " he said reference to the fact that Pulse was a gay nightclub. An attacker opened fire a gay nightclub late Saturday night, killg five people and woundg at least 25, officials said.

GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

Richardson / Getty Imag) Colorado Authori said Sunday that a gunman who opened fire at a gay nightclub Colorado — killg five and jurg 25 — was subdued by “heroic” patrons who h him wh his own gun. (Parker Seibold / Associated Prs) Law enforcement personnel stand outsi of the scene of a mass shootg at Club Q, a gay bar Colorado Sprgs, Colo., on Sunday.

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.

50 AD, ISLAMIC TERRORISM TIE EYED ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG

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. 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.

DENVER — The spect the adly massacre at a Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub is nonbary, acrdg to fense attorneys, raisg qutns about whether the attack was motivated by anti-LGBTQ bias. ORLANDO — A gunman who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State opened fire si a crowd gay bar and dance club here early Sunday, leavg 49 people ad and 53 jured the adlit mass shootg U. But also igned fears of a broar mpaign agast the Amerin gay, lbian and transgenr muny as the first anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court cisn legalizg same-sex marriage after the Orlando attack, police Southern California reported arrtg a heavily armed man who said he was head to a gay pri para the Los Angel area — though thori later said they were mistaken about the man’s target.

COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM

Meanwhile, Washgton, police stepped up patrols ahead of the Capal Pri Ftival, one of dozens of gay pri events schled this month across the natn and around the world. (Vio: Moni Akhtar/The Washgton Post, Photo: STEVE NESIUS/The Washgton Post)The Islamic State has repeatedly executed gay people and released vios showg their gome executns.

FLORIDA MLIMS EXPRS DPAIR AND FSTRATN OVER GAY NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE

“We’re proud of our gay muny Orlando, ” Mary Zika early Sunday eveng, a Florida LGBT advocy group had raised nearly half a ln dollars for the victims. A gunman wieldg an asslt-type rifle and a handgun opened fire si a crowd gay nightclub early Sunday, killg at least 50 people before dyg a gunfight wh SWAT officers, police said.

Aldrich was then moved to El Paso County Jail on spect ma their first urt appearance via vio lk om the jail on Wednday, where they uld be seen slumped a chair wh visible bisg on their fence lawyers appeared to need to prompt Aldrich durg the brief vio spect spoke twice, wh a slurred rponse, nfirmg their name and to say "no" when the judge asked whether they had any on Tuday, fence lawyers said the acced is nonbary and a footnote to their filg asserted that Aldrich prefers g the pronouns "they" and "them" more: Colorado gay club shootg spect intifi as non-bary, lawyers say.

GAY MUNICH

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

(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.

49 KILLED AT PULSE GAY CLUB ORLANDO; DEADLIT MASS SHOOTG U.S. HISTORYABSOLUTE EVILOMAR MATEEN SHOT MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE EARLY SUNDAY THE ADLIT SHOOTG ATTACK AMERIN HISTORY. GION RNICKPOLIL REPORTERJT MILLERUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 7:42PM EDT STEVE NI / RTERSTHE ADLIT MASS SHOOTG MORN AMERIN HISTORY KILLED 49 PEOPLE AFTER A GUNMAN ATTACKED A GAY DANCE CLUB ORLANDO, FLORIDA.OMAR MATEEN, OF PORT ST. LUCIE, FLORIDA, SHOT HIS WAY TO PULSE NIGHTCLUB AT 2 A.M. SUNDAY WH AN ASSLT RIFLE, ORLANDO POLICE ANNOUNCED SUNDAY. MATEEN REPORTEDLY TOOK HOSTAGE SEVERAL PATRONS WHO WERE HIDG A BATHROOM. A SWAT UN ENTERED THE CLUB AT 6 A.M. AND KILLED MATEEN WHAT WAS SCRIBED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT AS A STAED GUN BATTLE. PHOTOS: SCEN OM THE MASS SHOOTG AT ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB MATEEN ED AN “AR-15-STYLE ASSLT RIFLE,” ORLANDO POLICE CHIEF JOHN MA SAID. THE AR-15 HAS BEEN THE SIGNATURE WEAPON OF MASS SHOOTERS AMERI, ED BY ADAM LANZA TO KILL 26 AT SANDY HOOK AND THE SAN BERNARDO TERRORISTS TO KILL 14. THE ATTACK IS BEG VTIGATED AS AN ACT OF DOMTIC TERRORISM. REP. ADAM SCHIFF, THE TOP DEMOCRAT ON THE HOE PERMANENT SELECT COMMTEE ON INTELLIGENCE, TOLD CNN THAT, ACRDG TO HOMELAND SECURY AND LOL LAW-ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS, MATEEN “MA A PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE” TO THE ISLAMIC STATE TERROR GROUP AND HAD BEEN “HEARD PRAYG A FOREIGN LANGUAGE.” IT IS UNCLEAR IF MATEEN WAS PRAYG DIBLY DURG THE SHOOTG, SCHIFF SAID. PETE WILLIAMS OF NBC NEWS REPORTED THAT MATEEN LLED A 911 EMERGENCY LE AND SWORE HIS ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS LEAR ABU BAKR AL-BAGHDADI BEFORE THE MASSACRE.MATEEN’S FATHER, MIR SEDDIQUE, TOLD NBC NEWS THE ATTACK “HAS NOTHG TO DO WH RELIGN.” HE WENT ON TO SAY HIS SON GOT ANGRY WHEN HE SAW TWO MEN KISSG MIAMI A FEW MONTHS AGO. “WE ARE SAYG WE ARE APOLOGIZG FOR THE WHOLE CINT. WE WEREN’T AWARE OF ANY ACTN HE IS TAKG. WE ARE SHOCK LIKE THE WHOLE UNTRY,” SEDDIQUE SAID. ACRDG TO ACUNTS OM THE SCENE, THE GUNMAN TRAD GUNFIRE WH A POLICE OFFICER BEFORE ENTERG PULSE AT 2 A.M. MOST OF THE TIMATED 320 PEOPLE SI PED, BUT AN UNKNOWN NUMBER WERE TAKEN HOSTAGE A BATHROOM. ORLANDO MAYOR BUDDY DYER TOLD CNN THE ATH TOLL JUMPED OM 20 TO 50 AS ADDNAL VICTIMS WERE FOUND SI THE CLUB. PERSONNEL ULD NOT GO IMMEDIATELY AS EXPLOSIV WERE SPECTED TO HAVE BEEN HIDN. ACRDG TO DYER, THERE WERE FIVE TO EIGHT HOSTAG ONE ROOM WH THE SHOOTER AND AN ADDNAL 15 TO 20 A SEPARATE ROOM AT THE TIME WHEN POLICE ENTERED. MA JTICE SAID HER SON EDDIE WAS SI THE CLUB AND TEXTED HER WHEN THE GUNSHOTS EPTED, THE ASSOCIATED PRS REPORTED. JTICE TOLD HIS MOM HE AND OTHERS RAN TO THE BATHROOM TO HI.“HE’S G,” JTICE TEXTED, ADDG LATER: “HE HAS , AND HE’S HERE WH .”“THAT WAS THE LAST NVERSATN,” HIS MOTHER SAID.PULSE WAS FOUND 2004 BY BARBARA POMA AND HER IEND RON LEGLER AFTER POMA’S BROTHER DIED OF AIDS, ACRDG TO USA TODAY. SHE WANTED TO HELP PROMOTE AWARENS ABOUT THE LGBT MUNY, AND PULSE REFERS TO SELF AS “NOT JT ANOTHER GAY CLUB.”AS SOON AS THE SHOOTG BROKE OUT, THE CLUB POSTED A STAT UPDATE TO S FACEBOOK PAGE TELLG EVERYONE TO GET OUT AND “KEEP NNG.” “AS SOON AS WE HAVE ANY RMATN WE WILL UPDATE EVERYONE,” THE CLUB POSTED ON S FACEBOOK PAGE AT 6 A.M. SUNDAY. “PLEASE KEEP EVERYONE YOUR PRAYERS AS WE WORK THROUGH THIS TRAGIC EVENT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR THOUGHTS AND LOVE.”SUNDAY MORNG’S MASSACRE ME BARELY 36 HOURS AFTER A MAN SHOT AND KILLED SGER CHRISTA GRIMMIE WHILE SHE WAS SIGNG TOGRAPHS ORLANDO. THE KILLER, KEV LOIBL, WAS TACKLED BY GRIMMIE’S BROTHER AND THEN KILLED HIMSELF.PRINT OBAMA ADDRSED THE NATN LATER THE AFTERNOON, SEEMGLY FEATED BY HAVG TO MAKE THE SPEECH SO MANY TIM. “WE HAVE TO CI IF THAT’S THE UNTRY WE WANT TO BE. TO ACTIVELY DO NOTHG IS A CISN AS WELL,” HE SAID A SHORT ADDRS WHILE EMPHASIZG THAT AN ATTACK ON THE LGBT MUNY IS AN ATTACK ON “ALL OF .”READ MORE VERAGE OF THE MASSACRE AT THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB GION RNICK

It also rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.