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• COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM
• MUGSHOT OF COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT SHOWS JURI STAED DURG NONTATN WH 'HEROIC PEOPLE'
• WILL THE COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG BE PROSECUTED AS A HATE CRIME?
• VICTIMS OF THE COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG NONT KILLER, LLG HIM A MONSTER AND WARD

COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM

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

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. Aldrich, 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 murr.

(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. In Florida, legislators passed the ntroversial so-lled "Don't Say Gay" bill to law, wh Alabama followg su wh s own versn. 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 Sunday.The spect the Saturday night shootg at Club Q ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon, a law enforcement official said.

WILL THE COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG BE PROSECUTED AS A HATE CRIME?

Some were hurt tryg to flee, and was unclear if all of the victims were shot, a police spokperson said.Suthers said there was "reason to hope" that all of those hospalized would rever.The 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 aths.Club Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse.

VICTIMS OF THE COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG NONT KILLER, LLG HIM A MONSTER AND WARD

Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, lled the shootg "sickeng.""My heart breaks for the fay and iends of those lost, jured and trmatized," Polis said.

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.Sce 2006, there have been 523 mass killgs and 2,727 aths as of Nov. 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.