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

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• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• MAN ACCED COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG FACG MURR AND HATE CRIME CHARG
• COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB SHOOTER’S SE HEADS TO TRIAL

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

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

The spect who allegedly killed five people at a Colorado gay club before beg subdued by two revelers was intified Sunday as 22-year-old Anrson Lee Aldrich. The shootg also brought back paful memori of the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre Orlando, Florida, when a Mlim man who had equented gay clubs the past and exprs disda for “filthy” members of the LGBTQ muny killed 49 people.

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COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB SHOOTER’S SE HEADS TO TRIAL

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. 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. An attacker opened fire a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs late Saturday, killg five people and woundg 18, officials said.

GLAAD — the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn — lled the attack “unspeakable.

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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. The alleged shooter facg possible hate crime charg the fatal shootg of five people at a Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub was orred held whout bail an ial urt appearance Wednday.