Killing Police have yet to say if a suspect has been identified
The police intervened on Saturday evening after a shooting in an LGBT club. — VALERIE MACON/AFP
At least five people have been killed and 18 others injured Saturday night in a shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in London. Colorado Springs in the United States, announced; the police. “There was a shooting at a local club tonight. We have eighteen people injured and five killed,” a police spokeswoman, Pamela Castro.
Police officers intervened at; following a call around 11:57 p.m. local time, reporting a shooting in progress at this local club named Club Q, “have located to inside an individual we believe to be the suspect,” she continued. For its part, Club Q thanked for speed of their reaction to “the heroic customers who have mastered the shooter and put an end to it. this hateful attack,” Sunday on Facebook. The club say they are “upset” by this senseless attack on our community.
The club had announced; Saturday an LGBTQ event, an evening “with all kinds of gender identities and performance styles” to on the occasion of the Trans Day of Remembrance celebrated on November 20th internationally. On June 12, 2016, an American of Afghan origin, Omar Mateen, killed 49 people and wounded about fifty others in a gay club in Orlando, the Pulse, perpetrating the worst attack in the United States since those of September 11, 2001. last year on the fifth anniversary of the Orlando massacre by announcing that the club would become a national memorial.