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• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• WHO IS ANRSON LEE ALDRICH, SPECT MASS SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB?
• MAN WHO HELPED STOP SHOOTER AT COLORADO GAY CLUB ‘WANTED TO SAVE FAY I FOUND’
• SPECT INTIFIED GAY NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE
• AT LEAST 50 DEAD ORLANDO GAY CLUB SHOOTG, SPECT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS, OFFICIALS SAY
• COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB SHOOTER’S SE HEADS TO TRIAL
• GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

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

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

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.

MAN WHO HELPED STOP SHOOTER AT COLORADO GAY CLUB ‘WANTED TO SAVE FAY I FOUND’

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.

SPECT INTIFIED GAY NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE

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.

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 ary bas and the headquarters for Foc on the Fay, the nservative Christian group that says homosexualy and same-sex marriage are ss. The shootg six years after the 2016 massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, which left 49 people ad and dozens advot spoke out agast the shootg and support of the victims Sunday.

”Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who as a ndidate the 2020 printial electn beme the first openly gay ndidate to n for the natn’s hight office, lled the news of the shootg “sickeng and heartbreakg” and part of a “pattern” a tweet Sunday.

Jared Polis, who 2018 was the first openly gay man elected ernor and is currently quarantg wh Covid, lled the shootg "horrific, sickeng, and vastatg" a statement released Sunday morng. A member of the US navy who was jured while helpg prevent further harm durg a shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado last weekend said on Sunday that he “simply wanted to save the fay that I found” officer 2nd class Thomas Jam ma his first public ments on the shootg a statement issued through Centura Penrose hospal Colorado Sprgs, where Jam is reverg om undisclosed juri suffered durg the Colorado Sprgs police chief, Adrian Vasquez, said that Jam was one of two men who helped to stop the shooter who walked to Club Q late on 19 November wh multiple firearms, cludg a semitomatic rifle, and killed five least 17 others were jured when a drag queen’s birthday celebratn turned to a reportedly phed a rifle out of the shooter’s reach while army veteran Rich Fierro repeatedly stck the shooter wh a handgun the shooter brought to the bar, officials have said. Colorado’s ernor, Jared Polis, the first openly gay man elected ernor the US, appeared on TV sayg he supported creasg licensg requirements for semitomatic weapons, improvg mental health servic and better e of red flag laws that allow urts to remove weapons om people havg mental health cris and who may be a danger.

COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB SHOOTER’S SE HEADS TO TRIAL

5 Dead, 18 Injured Gay Nightclub Massacre... Another massacre at a gay club has left 5 ad and at least 18 jured.

A gunman opened fire at Club Q, a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs. This is far om the first attack gay clubs. — -- 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.

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. "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. "Club Q has been a safe haven for the LGBTQ muny an area where hasn't always been easy, " Polis, who beme the first openly gay ernor the U.

GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

(AP) — A shooter seemed to be driven by bias agast the LGBTQ muny plottg an attack at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five and woundg 17 others, a judge acknowledged Thursday fdg that prosecutors showed enough evince for trial on murr and hate crime charg. A Navy sailor grabbed the barrel of a gunman’s rifle and an Army veteran shed to help as they end the adly mass shootg at the gay nightclub November, a police tective ttified Wednday. District Attorney Michael Allen told the judge that the evince showed that Aldrich had a “distaste for LGBTQ, ” potg to an onle msage of a rifle spe over a gay pri para picture and e of gay slurs agast others and while onle gamg.

READ MORE: Gunman kills 5 at gay club, is subdued by patrons.

‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

The hearg also revealed that Aldrich might be gay, somethg not prevly mentned by prosecutors or fense attorneys. Aldrich told one of the patrons who helped stop the attack, “My mom will not accept me bee I’m gay.

Also released was a receipt that showed that on one of Aldrich’s viss to the club before the shootg, they bought two vodkas and “gayoli i” om bartenr Derrick Rump, who was among those sla. Hundreds of people have gathered a Colorado Sprgs park to honor five people killed and 17 wound a weekend shootg at a gay nightclub. People embrace durg a ndlelight vigil on a rner near the se of a weekend mass shootg at a gay bar, late Monday, Nov.

(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.