Authori intified a 22-year-old man as the spect a mass shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colorado where five people were killed and 18 were jured. Police and the FBI are still vtigatg and praised 'heroic' patrons who stopped gunman before police arrived.
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- WILL THE COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG BE PROSECUTED AS A HATE CRIME?
- SPECT ADLY MASS SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB CHANGED NAME AS TEENAGER AFTER ALLEGED BULLYG, RERDS SHOW
- OFFICIALS INTIFY SPECT COLORADO SPRGS GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG, MOTIVE STILL UNKNOWN
- DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY
WILL THE COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG BE PROSECUTED AS A HATE CRIME?
The worst mass shootg U.S. history was rried out at Pulse, a gay nightclub, by Omar Mateen – a man the FBI had prevly vtigated. * gay club shooting motive *
In Orlando, people grappled wh the magnu of the horror: One man armed wh an asslt rifle and a pistol managed to kill 49 people and wound another 53 si 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.
It’s been nearly two years sce the mass shootg at Pulse nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people — wily believed to be an act of aggrsn agast the club’s LGBTQ clientele and “unniably a homophobic hate crime. In fact, he allegedly had no ia Pulse was a gay club, and simply Googled “Orlando nightclubs” after fdg that secury at his origal target, a major shoppg and entertament plex, was too high, as reported by. A radil Islamic terrorist targeted the nightclub, not only bee he wanted to kill Amerins, but orr to execute gay and lbian cizens, bee of their sexual orientatn.
” The followg day at a North Carola rally Tmp said, “We want to live a untry where gay and lbian Amerins and all Amerins are safe om radil Islam, which, by the way, wants to murr and has murred gays and they enslave women. The shooter didn’t target LGBTQ people — he didn’t even realize Pulse was a gay-oriented nightclub, askg a secury guard at the club where all the women were jt before he started shootg.
SPECT ADLY MASS SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB CHANGED NAME AS TEENAGER AFTER ALLEGED BULLYG, RERDS SHOW
As thoands Orlando turned out to mourn 49 people killed si a gay nightclub, feral vtigators examed possible motiv for the gunman who mted the worst mass shootg morn U.S. history. * gay club shooting motive *
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. Spect adly mass shootg at Colorado gay nightclub changed name as teenager after alleged bullyg, rerds show. The spect the mass shootg of 22 people at a Colorado gay nightclub sought to change his name more than six years ago, acrdg to public rerds.
OFFICIALS INTIFY SPECT COLORADO SPRGS GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG, MOTIVE STILL UNKNOWN
* gay club shooting motive *
Addnally, a YouTube acunt was opened his name that clud an animatn tled "Asian homosexual gets molted. Noah Reich, left, and David Maldonado, the Los Angel -founrs of Classroom of Compassn, put up a memorial wh photographs of the five victims of a weekend mass shootg at a nearby gay nightclub on Nov. Jeremiah Harris, who is 24 and gay, said he went to the club 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.
DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY
It also rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. -- The FBI is vtigatg reports that Orlando gunman Omar Mateen had been a regular at the gay nightclub he attacked and had ed gay datg apps, a U. A number of possible explanatns and motiv for the bloodbath that left 49 victims ad have emerged, wh Mateen profsg allegiance to the Islamic State group, his ex-wife sayg he was mentally ill, and his father suggtg he was driven by hatred of picture grew more plex as patrons of the Pulse me forward to say that they had seen the 29-year-old Amerin-born Mlim there a number of tim or that he had been g gay datg apps.
While acknowledgg he didn't know Mateen well, Van Horn said: "I thk 's possible that he was tryg to al wh his ner mons, of tryg to get rid of his anger of homosexualy. " Asked if his son was gay, the Afghan immigrant replied: "No.
"The elr Mateen said that apart om the time his son got angry a few months ago over seeg two men kissg, he never saw any anti-gay behavr om the past two years, the Islamic State has targeted gay men for ath keepg wh s radil terpretatn of Islam, throwg dozens of them om tall buildgs Iraq and Monday night, about a e om Pulse downtown Orlando, thoands gathered for a vigil to support the victims and survivors. "It was a place that a young 20-year-old who wasn't openly gay felt safe for the first time, " said Cathleen Ds, now 36, who worked at Pulse her 20s.