A 22-year-old man was facing murder and potential hate crime charges on Monday after a shooting rampage at an LGBTQ nightclub in the western US city of Colorado Springs that left five people dead and at least 18 others injured.
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District Attorney Michael Allen said he expects first-degree murder charges to be filed and “if the evidence supports bias-motivated crimes, we will charge that as well.”“The fact that these victims were in a specific location that is predominantly frequented by members of the LGBTQ community — that is evidence that we can use,” he said.
“You can draw a straight line from the false and vile rhetoric about LGBTQ people spread by extremists and amplified across social media, to the nearly 300 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced this year, to the dozens of attacks on our community like this one,” GLAAD president Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement.
The attack was the deadliest on the LGBTQ community in the United States since a 2016 mass shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida that claimed 49 lives. The police chief condemned what he called an “evil act” and pledged to do everything he can to make the community in Colorado Springs feel safe again.
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