INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A gunman opened fire in a gay nightclub early Sunday, killing five people and wounding 18 in the latest mass shooting to befall the country
in a year in which anti-gay rhetoric has been amped up among extremists.Lt
Pamela Castro of the Colorado Springs Police Department said police received a report of a shooting at Club Q at 11:57 p.m.Castro said there
was one suspect who was injured and was being treated
She said it was not immediately clear whether he had been shot by officers
She said the FBI was on the scene and assisting in the case.The police department tweeted that it planned an 8 a.m
Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people
And it occurred in a state that has experienced several notorious mass killings, including at Columbine High School, a movie theater in a
Denver suburb in 2012 and a Boulder supermarket last year.In June, 31 members of the neo-Nazi group Patriot Front were arrested in Coeur
Experts warned that extremist groups could see anti-gay rhetoric as a call to action.The previous month, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told
his small Boise congregation that gay, lesbian and transgender people should be executed by the government, which lined up with similar
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