More than two dozen were injured in the midnight attack, police said, adding that the suspected shooter had been apprehended and hospitalized.
A gunman entered a Colorado Springs LGBTQ club and immediately began firing with a long rifle late Saturday, killing at least five people and injuring 25, officials said.
Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez praised "at least two heroic people" inside Club Q who, he said, "confronted and fought with the suspect and were able to stop the suspect from continuing to kill and harm others.
Haynes opened the club 20 years ago to give people a place to gather and be themselves.
“We started it when there were darker days. We didn’t have a lot of rights and we needed places to have a community and that’s what Club Q has been for twenty years,” Haynes said.
The suspected shooter, who officials identified as Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22,was injured in the attack, apprehended and hospitalized. Officials at the news conference Sunday did not confirm whether the suspect in that case was the same one believed to be the shooter at Club Q.
Castro, the police department spokeswoman, said at the news conference Sunday that "numerous people" were transported to multiple hospitals by ambulance and police cruisers, and that hospital officials were helping police notify the family members of those injured.
Further information on their conditions as of Sunday afternoon was not immediately available.
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