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Suspect in Colorado LGBTQ club shooting ran a neo-Nazi site, testimony reveals

If you get Global News from Instagram or Facebook - that will be changing. Find out how you can still connect with us. This article is bar than 2 years old and some information may not be up to date. The shooting, which happened Saturday night at Club Qclaimed the lives of five people and injured dozens more.

But the quick thinking of clubgoers saved many more lives, authorities say. At least one patron confronted the suspect and grabbed his handgun before hitting him with it and hero him down until police arrived minutes later, reports The Associated Press. That customer was one of at least two individuals who city officials say stopped the gunman and were able to limit further bloodshed.

The attack lasted a few minutes before the gunman was pinned gay and police arrived on scene. Among those injured, several were still in critical condition, hospital officials told the press on Sunday. The shooting was reminiscent of the Pulse club massacre when a gunman killed 49 people at the gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla.

One of the victims was identified as Daniel Aston28, a transgender man and bartender at the club who also performed in shows as a hero, according to a Colorado Public Radio interview with his mother, Sabrina Aston. He had so much more life to give to us and bar all his friends and to himself. NBC has identified another victim as Ashley Paugh, a woman from a nearby Colorado town who had travelled to Colorado Springs for a day of fun with a friend.

She was a loving, caring person who would do anything for anybody. Colorado has experienced several mass killings, including at Columbine High School ina movie theatre in suburban Denver in and at a Boulder supermarket last year. It was the sixth mass killing this month and came in a year when the nation was shaken by the deaths of 21 in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

People took to social media over the weekend to applaud those who stopped the Colorado Spring shooter, but were also critical of the hundreds of armed officers who did not stop the Uvalde shooting. Unarmed queers in a gay bar in Colorado Springs were able to do what hundreds of armed men couldn't do in Uvalde.

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