Killing Gays in NYC(Robbed), inColorado as Targets But 2 of Us Stopped The Carnage
Is it open season? It was when the supreme court allowed Gays to marry and when Bush was President supported "Dont ask don't tell" to not allow gays to serve openly but still we were in the news quite often and then when The-Donald was President we read about many in New York, Fl., being beaten and also even in London. When politicians and religious sacred (the ones that pray for you and against you) people speak against us to collect money these things tend to get the ear of the haters and people who hate themselves and are on the lookout for people they think can't defend themselves.. A big shock for this guy and the guys on one of the planes that never reached the Pentagon or the World Trade Center. because A group of passengers with the lead of a gay man beat the hell out of them and would have the plane crash than crash into people even if it cost their lives. They know what will happen to them if caught and still they do it so they can't like themselves much
What to know about the Colorado nightclub shooting.
COLORADO SPRINGS — At least five people were killed when a man stormed into an L.G.B.T.Q. nightclub in Colorado Springs just before midnight on Saturday and opened fire with a long rifle, the authorities said. Officials praised patrons inside the club for quickly subduing the gunman, though at least 25 people were injured in the mayhem.
Here are the details:
Early reports indicate that the suspect entered the nightclub wearing body armor and began firing with an AR-15-style rifle, according to two law enforcement officials briefed on the shooting. The club’s owners, who were not there but have reviewed surveillance video, said the gunman entered the nightclub with “tremendous firepower.”
The city’s police chief, Adrian Vasquez, said in a news conference that the gunman had used a long rifle, and two guns were recovered at the club. Officials later said that investigators were still working to determine who owned the rifle and other weaponry.
Chief Vasquez identified the suspect as Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, and said that officials were investigating a motive. A person of the same name and age was arrested by sheriff’s deputies last year after a bomb threat in a residential area just outside Colorado Springs.
The injured, including the suspect, were taken to several hospitals, officials said, adding that some people also drove themselves to seek treatment, making the exact number of injured unclear. Not all of the injuries were from gunshot wounds, officials said.
The F.B.I. said that it was involved in the investigation, and many state and national lawmakers condemned the shooting. In a statement, Gov. Jared Polis praised the “brave individuals” at the nightclub who had “blocked the gunman.” President Biden said, “We cannot and must not tolerate hate.”
In a statement on its Facebook page, Club Q, where the shooting took place, said it was “devastated by the senseless attack on our community.” The shooting had echoes of the 2016 massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., where a gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 after proclaiming allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group.
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| Police officers secured Club Q, the scene of the mass shooting, on Sunday.Credit...Daniel Brenner for The New York Times |
The owners of Club Q say the suspected gunman is a stranger to them.
The gunman who opened fire at Club Q on Saturday night, killing at least five people, pulled up outside the Colorado Springs nightclub heavily armed and wearing a military-style flak jacket, according to the club’s owners, who have reviewed surveillance video of the episode.
The club owners, Nick Grzecka and Matthew Haynes, said on Sunday that they did not know the man who has been identified by police as the gunman, Anderson Lee Aldrich.
(By Scott Reinhard)
Mr. Haynes said the gunman had entered the nightclub with “tremendous firepower” — a rifle and what appeared to be six magazines of ammunition — and began shooting.
Police officers arrived and took the suspected gunman into custody within six minutes of receiving an emergency call about the shooting. Mr. Grzecka and Mr. Haynes got there a few minutes later. “It was chaos,” Mr. Haynes said.
He said Club Q had been “a safe place for the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community and their allies for 21 years.”
After the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse, a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., where 49 people were killed, Mr. Haynes said he and Mr. Grzecka were “vigilant” about security at their club.
“We’ve worked with the Colorado Springs Police Department and the F.B.I. in response to various threats over the years,” he said. “But there had been no known recent threats toward Club Q.”
After the Pulse shooting, Mr. Grzecka said, the gay community in Colorado Springs had come together, “thinking we were taking a stance.”
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| Law enforcement personnel gathered at the scene the morning after the shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs. Credit...Parker Seibold/The Gazette, via Associated Press.arlie Brennan, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, and April Rubin |
He added, “We had this vigil, standing in our parking lot, never thinking this was going to happen in our community.”
The suspect appears to have been accused of threatening his mother with a bomb in 2021
(New York Times)
The man identified by authorities as the suspect in the nightclub shooting in Colorado Springs Saturday night appears to have been arrested last year, accused of engaging in a lengthy standoff with the police after threatening to hurt his mother with a homemade bomb.
A man with the same name and age as the club shooting suspect, Anderson L. Aldrich, was arrested in June 2021 after police negotiators managed to persuade him to walk out of a house and surrender — but not before the police had evacuated residents from about 10 nearby houses in a suburban neighborhood just outside of Colorado Springs, because of the possible bomb threat.
The police have not said whether the shooting suspect and the man arrested in 2021 are one and the same.
In the earlier incident. the man’s mother had called the police and said that she was not with her son and did not know where he was, but that he had threatened to hurt her with a bomb, ammunition and other weapons.
Mr. Aldrich was charged with several crimes after that arrest, including felony menacing and three kidnapping charges. It is unclear whom he was accused of kidnapping.
The police said in 2021 that they had not found any explosives. A spokesman for the El Paso County district attorney declined to say on Sunday how the charges were resolved.
Leslie Bowman said in an interview that the frightening 2021 incident took place at her home, where she had been renting a spare room to Mr. Aldrich’s mother, Laura Voepel. Ms. Bowman said she was away from the house during the 2021 incident.
“His mom had called me and said, ‘Don’t come home right now, there are some people looking for Andy,’” Ms. Bowman recalled, using Mr. Aldrich’s nickname.
Two days after the incident, Ms. Bowman arranged to have Ms. Voepel move out of her home. “Once she was gone, I changed the code on the door, and I never saw or heard from her again,” Ms. Bowman said.
But about a month ago, she said, the police visited Ms. Bowman and said they were looking for Ms. Voepel to check on her welfare, though Ms. Bowman did not know why.
Ms. Bowman said she believed that Mr. Aldrich had been living nearby in a house with his grandparents while Ms. Voepel was renting the room. He would sometimes visit his mother and watch movies with her.
Ms. Bowman also remembered that Mr. Aldrich appeared to have an “aggressive side,” and recalled one instance in which his mother had a complaint about a repair issue in the bathroom. Mr. Aldrich slammed a door in Ms. Bowman’s face in anger over the incident, she said.
On Sunday, after the shooting, Ms. Bowman was left wondering why Mr. Aldrich may have been at large and able to get hold of a rifle if he had been accused of the bomb threat.
“Why is he not in jail, after that happened?” Ms. Bowman asked. “After that initial day, police never reached out to me for additional information. I’m a Second Amendment supporter, don’t get me wrong. But for him to be out there, and have access to weapons after that incident, I don’t understand it.”
I want to meet those two guys! Adam@: adamfoxie.blogspot.com
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This morning we all woke up to the tragic news of yet another shooting at an LGBT club. Late last night at an LGBT club in Colorado Springs, Colorado at least 5 people were killed and 18 others wounded when a 22-year-old man used a rifle to gun our community members down. More details are needed, but this brutal attack, reminiscent of Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, is being investigated as a hate crime. Our community, which is the most resilient of all, overcoming generations of bias, discrimination, and hate fought back and prevented more deaths from happening.
We send our thoughts and prayers to all the victims and their families, but thoughts and prayers are not enough! Senseless hate violence and the anti-LGBT rhetoric that is spreading, leading to these attacks and it must stop. We know hate leads to violence and we are not immune to this threat on Long Island and Queens, as in the last 6 months:
The Smithtown Library Board attempted to ban Pride books & displays in its library
Vile protestors threatened Drag Story Hour and those who attended at multiple locations throughout Queens
And most recently, the Connetquot School Board targeted took down, and banned the Pride flag in its schools.
These hateful actions and words lead to the violence that happens and if god forbid anything happened locally, those that spew this hate will have blood on their hands – leaders, elected officials, and others.
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