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.
Contents:
- 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.
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 *
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.
OFFICIALS INTIFY SPECT COLORADO SPRGS GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG, MOTIVE STILL UNKNOWN
* gay club shooting motive *
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. 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.
DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY
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.