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US Army veteran recalls stopping Colorado LGBTQ nightclub shooter: ‘I just kept hitting him’
- Richard Fierro was at Club Q in Colorado Springs on Saturday Night with his wife and daughter to watch a drag performance
- Fierro’s daughter was injured in the mass shooting, breaking a knee. Her boyfriend Raymond Green Vance, 22, was killed
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A US Army veteran who stopped an active shooter at an LGBTQ nightclub on Saturday night said he wasn’t thinking when he rushed the man, grabbed his gun and beat him with it – just reacting.
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“I just start whaling on this dude,” Richard Fierro told media gathered outside his home on Monday evening.
Fierro was one of two people who stopped the gunman within minutes after the man had entered Club Q in Colorado Springs. The first emergency calls came in at 11:57pm, and the shooter was subdued by the time police officers arrived. He was arrested at 12:02am, police said.
Fierro was at the club with his wife and daughter to watch a drag performance. He said he first dove for cover when the gunman entered and started shooting.
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Gunman held after killing 5 and injuring 25 at gay nightclub in US state of Colorado
Gunman held after killing 5 and injuring 25 at gay nightclub in US state of Colorado
“I smelled the cordite, I saw the flash, I dove, pushed my buddy down,” he said.
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