Tag: Club Q Victim
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Club Q shooting victims file notices to sue El Paso County
Several victims of the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs and some of their family members have notified El Paso County officials they intend to file lawsuits, claiming the Sheriff’s Office “played a role” in the violence after it failed to invoke Colorado’s red flag gun law against the alleged shooter during an earlier 2021…
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Friends remember Club Q shooting victim Daniel Aston as ‘the best version of heaven’
Daniel Aston was vibrant, energetic, caring, open and kind — the “best version of heaven,” friends recalled this week. “He was sweet, loving and caring. He had an open heart and he just loved everybody,” Aston’s friend and Club Q regular Alex Gallagher said Tuesday afternoon. A 28-year-old drag king, performer and bartender at Club Q,…
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Club Q victim Raymond Green Vance: ‘Kind, selfless’ man was ready for next step in life
Twenty-two-year-old Raymond Green Vance was at Club Q with his longtime girlfriend, her parents and a group of friends on Saturday night, when a heavily-armed gunman opened fire inside the Colorado Springs nightclub. Vance was one of five people killed in the brief but horrific shooting rampage that injured more than a dozen. “Raymond was…
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Club Q victim Derrick Rump: Bartender was ‘the heart of Club Q’
A loving friend. A straight shooter. A “star bartender.” An out-and-proud gay man. The superlatives poured in from friends and Club Q patrons following the news that Derrick Rump, a bartender at the LGBTQ+ nightclub in east Colorado Springs, was one of five people killed Saturday in a mass shooting that also left 18 people…
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Club Q victim Ashley Paugh: Wife, mom ‘would do anything for anyone’
Ashley Paugh was the type of person who “had a huge heart” and “would do anything for anyone,” family members recalled Monday. “She was an amazing sister, mom, daughter, wife, aunt and cousin,” Paugh’s sister Stephanie Clark told The Gazette by phone Monday in a tearful and emotional interview. “That coward took her away and…