Police: 5 dead, 18 injured in Colorado LGBTQ nightclub shooting

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A shooting astatine a LGBTQ nightclub successful Colorado near 5 radical dormant and 18 wounded precocious Saturday nighttime and a fishy was successful custody, constabulary said.

Lt. Pamela Castro of the Colorado Springs Police Department said constabulary received a study of a shooting astatine Club Q astatine 11:57 p.m.

Castro said determination was 1 fishy who was injured and was being treated. She said it was not instantly wide whether helium had been changeable by officers. She said the FBI was connected the country and assisting successful the case.

Club Q is simply a cheery and lesbian nightclub that features a “Drag Diva Drag Show” connected Saturdays, according to its website.

“Club Q is devastated by the senseless onslaught connected our community,” the nine posted connected its Facebook page. It said its prayers were with victims and families, and “We convey the speedy reactions of heroic customers that subdued the gunman and ended this hatred attack.”

The motive down the shooting was not instantly known but it brought backmost memories of the 2016 massacre astatine the the Pulse nightclub successful Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. And it occurred successful a authorities that has experienced respective notorious wide killings, including astatine Columbine High School, a movie theatre successful a Denver suburb successful 2012 and a Boulder supermarket past year.