Date uploaded: 2022-11-21 02:23:26
A makeshift memorial of flowers, candles, food and pride flags continued to grow outside Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Sunday afternoon after a gunman opened fire inside the LGBTQ nightclub just before midnight Saturday, killing five people and leaving 25 injured.
Not far from Club Q, a standing-room-only crowd that included Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers and several members of the City Council gathered for a vigil at the All Souls Unitarian Church on Sunday.
Speaking at the vigil, David Dahlin, vice president of philanthropy for the Pikes Peak Community Foundation, said: "We are just devastated by this. I have lived here 33 years and I am a member of the LGBTQ community and we have made progress."
Officials were looking into whether to prosecute the attack as a hate crime, according to El Paso County District Attorney Michael Allen, who said charges against the suspect, who is in custody, "will likely include first-degree murder."
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