Man acced Colorado gay bar shootg facg murr and hate crime charg | PBS NewsHour

Contents:

• POLICE: GUNMAN ENTERED GAY CLUB, STARTED FIRG
• GUNMAN TARGETS GAY COLORADO NIGHTCLUB
• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• MUGSHOT OF COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT SHOWS JURI STAED DURG NONTATN WH 'HEROIC PEOPLE'
• DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY
• MAN ACCED COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG FACG MURR AND HATE CRIME CHARG
• COLORADO SHOOTG: GAY CLUB PATRONS H GUNMAN WH HIS OWN WEAPON AFTER 5 KILLED

POLICE: GUNMAN ENTERED GAY CLUB, STARTED FIRG

A gunman opened fire a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 18 jured before he was subdued, police said Sunday. A Colorado Sprgs Communy Service vehicle is parked near a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colo., Sunday, Nov. -- A gunman opened fire wh a semi-tomatic 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 shooter ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon the Saturday night shootg at Club Q, a law enforcement official said.

Some were hurt tryg to flee, and was unclear if all of the victims were shot, a police spokperson shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. Colorado has experienced several mass killgs, cludg at Columbe High School 1999, at a movie theater suburban Denver 2012 and at a Boulr supermarket last was the sixth mass killg this month and me a year when the natn was shaken by the aths of 21 a school shootg Uval, 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.

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GUNMAN TARGETS GAY COLORADO NIGHTCLUB

20, 2022, Colorado Sprgs, Colo., followg a fatal shootg at gay nightclub Club Q late the night before. (RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via AP) Tyrice Kelley, center right, a performer at Club Q, is forted durg a service held at All Souls Unarian Church followg an overnight fatal shootg at the gay nightclub, Colorado Sprgs, Colo., on Sunday, Nov. Thurman was si the gay nightclub when a gunman opened fire the night before, killg several people and jurg multiple others before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons.

Richardson/The Denver Post via AP) Fred Ramirez, Try Ramirez, Tim Bat, and Malissa Ramirez grieve near a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colo., Sunday, Nov. (AP Photo/Geneva Heffernan) This image provid by KTTV shows the scene after a shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colo., Saturday, Nov.

(KTTV via AP) Crime tape is set up near a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colo., Sunday, Nov.

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

(Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP) Crystal and Ella Mondragon place flowers at a makhift memorial near a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colo., Sunday, Nov. (AP PhotoGeneva Heffernan) Gallery: Shootg at gay nightclub Colorado. 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.

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

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DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY

Club 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 to be elected a U. " He was taken to police ctody shortly after the shootg began and was beg treated for juri, acrdg to shootg was remiscent of the 2016 Pulse club massacre, when a gunman killed 49 people at the gay nightclub of that name Orlando, Florida, before he was fatally shot by unfold as LGBTQ muni and alli around the world prepared to mark the Transgenr Day of Remembrance on Sunday, an annual observance to honor victims of transphobic Q, a long-tablished venue a most strip mall, was scribed by many as a safe haven for the LGBTQ muny Colorado's send-largt of the victims was intified as Daniel Aston, 28, a transgenr man and bartenr at the club who also performed shows as a dancer, acrdg to a Colorado Public Rad terview wh his mother, Sabra Aston. '"[1/7]General view of the Club Q gay nightclub as police rpond to a mass shootg Colorado Sprgs, Colorado, U.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis, who 2018 beme the first openly gay man the untry to be elected as a ernor, lled the shootg a "sensels act of evil.

MAN ACCED COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG FACG MURR AND HATE CRIME CHARG

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COLORADO SHOOTG: GAY CLUB PATRONS H GUNMAN WH HIS OWN WEAPON AFTER 5 KILLED

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