Police opened fire on a gay bar

The gunman was taken into custody around five minutes after police first received a call about the shooting at Club Q. AP — An attacker opened fire in a gay nightclub, killing five people and wounding 18, officials said Sunday. The club said the suspect was subdued by patrons. Authorities received a report of a shooting at Club Q at p.

Saturday and responded within minutes, said Lt. The violence is the sixth mass killing this month and comes in a year when the nation was shaken by the deaths of 21 in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Castro had few details beyond the number of dead and wounded. The FBI said it was providing assistance to Colorado Springs police, but said the police department was leading the investigation.

Colorado Gov. In a statement, Club Q termed the shooting a hate attack. Colorado Springs is a city of aboutlocated about 70 miles kilometers south of Denver that is home to the U. The shooting brought back memories of the massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. And it occurred in a state that has experienced several notorious mass killings, including at Columbine High School ina movie theater in suburban Denver in and at a Boulder supermarket last year.

Democratic Rep. It must stop. Experts warned that extremist groups could see anti-gay rhetoric as a call to action.

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The previous month, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his small Boise congregation that gay, lesbian and transgender people should be executed by the government, which lined up with similar sermons from a Texas fundamentalist pastor. There have been mass killings since resulting in 2, deaths as of Nov.

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