Two Bartenders Among Five Killed in Mass Shooting at Colorado Gay Club.
Two bartenders have been confirmed among the five people who were shot dead at an LGBTQ club on Saturday night, November 19.
The pictures of Daniel Aston and Derrick Rump have been posted on Facebook by a fellow worker at Club Q in Colorado Springs, USA.
25 people were also injured in the attack, which appeared to be a premeditated attack by a single gunman carrying an AR-15 rifle.
Sole suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, has been arrested in connection with the crime that happened on the eve of The Transgender Day of Remembrance at 11:57pm local time.
Aston, 28, was a trans man and the shooting is being investigated as a hate crime.
Aston
Derrick Rump
Police have also revealed that Aldrich was subdued by at least two heroic members of the public in the club.
He is now in custody at a local hospital, being treated for unknown injuries.
Joshua Thurman, 34, has told reporters in the USÂ how he survived the attack after initially hearing four or five gunshots whilst he was dancing.
He said: “I thought it was the music because there were no screams, no shouts of ‘Help, help,’ nothing like that.
“Then I heard more shots and saw the flash from the muzzle of the gun.
“When I realised what was going on, I ran to the dressing room immediately. There was a customer that followed me, and there was a drag performer, Del Lusional, who was in the dressing room.
“We heard the police come in. We heard them yelling at him. We heard then saying ‘Check certain people, cause they’re critical.'”
After leaving the dressing room, Thurman said he saw bodies on the ground.
On its Facebook page, a statement from Club Q said it was “devastated by the senseless attack on our community” and added that thoughts and prayers were with the victims and their families and friends, while expressing appreciation for “the quick reactions of heroic customers that subdued the gunman and ended this hate attack”.
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