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On the night of Saturday November 19 to Sunday November 20, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, United States, was the scene of a shooting. At least five people were killed.
UNITED STATES – The alert was launched shortly before midnight, on the night of Saturday November 19 to Sunday November 20. At ” Club Q “, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, in the United States, a shooting caused the death of at least 5 people and injured 18, according to the first report communicated by the authorities.
In a press briefing organized a few hours after the tragedy, Lieutenant Pamela Castro said that a single person was behind the massacre. The alleged shooter was finally arrested and hospitalized, thanks to the help of some partygoers.
” At least two people in the box confronted him and fought with him. They managed to prevent him from continuing to kill said Adrian Vasquez, a local police chief. The 22-year-old shooter was carrying two weapons, including a rifle, the officer said.
A “hate crime”, for Club Q
Police intervened following a call around 11:57 p.m. local time (6:57 a.m. Sunday) reporting a shooting in progress in this local box. They “located an individual inside that we believe to be the suspect”said Lieutenant Pamela Castro.
Emergency medical personnel consisting of dozens of firefighters and 11 ambulances were deployed to the scene of the shooting, according to Colorado Springs Fire Department spokesman Mike Smaldino. The injured were transported to various hospitals in Colorado, a state in the center of the country.
” We are devastated by this senseless attack on our community. “, reacted the night establishment on its social networks, evoking a “ hate crime to qualify the shooting which the FBI has also been asked to assist local law enforcement officers in their investigation. ” All of our prayers and thoughts are with the victims, their families and friends,” added the disco.
The club had announced for this Saturday an LGBTQ event, an evening “with all sorts of gender identities and performance styles” on the occasion of the Trans Day of Remembrance celebrated on November 20 internationally.
BREAKING UPDATE: OFFICIALS CONFIRM 18 INJURED, 5 DECEASED. #ClubQ @KRDONC13 https://t.co/WNFZHfDixA
—Joe Ruch (@KRDOJoe)
In 2016, a massacre in the LGBT nightlife created immense trauma in the United States, when a gunman, Omar Mateen, killed 49 people and injured 53 others in the pulse, an iconic nightclub in Orlando, Florida. It was at the time, and until the Las Vegas massacre, the worst attack in the United States since those of September 11, 2001.
US President Joe Biden marked the fifth anniversary of the Orlando massacre last year by announcing that the club would become a national memorial.
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