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• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• AT LEAST FIVE PEOPLE KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS
• MAN ACCED COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG FACG MURR AND HATE CRIME CHARG
• COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
• DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY
• FIVE KILLED, AT LEAST 18 INJURED SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY BAR
• GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

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

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AT LEAST FIVE PEOPLE KILLED SHOOTG AT GAY NIGHTCLUB COLORADO SPRGS

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

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Only one person appeared to be volved the attack, the lol district attorney, Michael Allen, said on Newb lays flowers near a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colorado, on Sunday, where a shootg occurred late Saturday night. In 2016, a gunman killed 49 people and wound more than 50 at a gay nightclub Orlando one of the adlit attacks US history.

”The Denver Brons profsnal Amerin football team said would have a moment of silence for Sunday’s victims before their game later that first openly gay elected ngrsman om Illois, Eric Sorensen, tweeted reactn on Sunday: “As we pray for those fightg for life, we mt e loud voic to stand up agast hate. This article was amend on 20 November 2022 to note that Sorensen was the first openly gay elected ngrsman om Illois as opposed to the first such ngrsman.

COLORADO GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FACG MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

(AP) — The man spected of killg five people and jurg others at a gay bar Colorado Sprgs is facg murr and hate crime charg, acrdg to onle urt rerds obtaed Monday.

The shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. 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.

DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY

A 22-year-old gunman opened fire a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg more than two dozen jured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrted by police who were on the scene wh mut, thori said a news nference Sunday morng, Colorado Sprgs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez intified the spect as 22-year-old Anrson Lee Aldrich, who was beg treated for juri.

"Flags will be lowered for 5 days to remember each of the 5 dividuals who lost their liv this sensels tragedy, " Polis Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a "Drag Diva Drag Show" on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse.

FIVE KILLED, AT LEAST 18 INJURED SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY BAR

Although a motive wasn't yet clear, nor were the genr inti of the victims, the cint me as anti-gay rhetoric has tensified by extremists.

GAY BAR SHOOTG SPECT FAC MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

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 have been 523 mass killgs sce 2006 rultg 2, 727 aths as of Nov. The attack at a gay bar Colorado Sprgs, Colorado, over the weekend has left the lol LGBTQ muny least five people were killed and dozens were jured a late night shootg on Nov.