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Colorado club shooting: 'Hero' Army veteran who stopped suspected gunman says he feels 'no joy'
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado -- A U.S. Army veteran who stopped a suspected gunman from fatally shooting more people after he allegedly killed five people at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado says he isn't a hero, and he's mourning the people who died, including his daughter's boyfriend.
"There are five people I could not help, one of which was family to me," Richard Fierro said during a press conference outside his home Monday night.
"I feel no pleasure. That guy is still alive... and my family is not," he said, referring to his daughter's boyfriend, Raymond Green Vance, who was among those killed in the shooting.
Five people were killed and 17 others were injured from gunshot wounds after a suspect, Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, allegedly began shooting as soon as he walked into Club Q in Colorado Springs on Saturday night, according to police. Aldrich is facing five counts of murder and five counts of bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury, which is Colorado's hate crime law.
Watch Colorado Gov. Jared Polis discuss the deadly shooting at a When the alleged perpetrator of a massacre at a US gay bar appeared in court, they clearly bore the scars of their encounter with the high-heel-wielding, pistol-whipping patrons of Club Q. Bruised, bloody and slumped over in a wheelchair, Anderson Aldrich said nothing as lawyers discussed how their case would be handled. The 22-year-old — whose lawyers utter identifies as non-binary — is facing preliminary charges that include five counts of first-degree murder and "bias" crimes. Police allege Anderson Aldrich — dressed in body armour and wielding a long rifle and handgun — burst into the club that is a haven for the LGBTQ community in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. But local activists utter the alleged assailant clearly misjudged their intended victims. "We have five military bases in our town and I think sometimes people underestimate our ability to take care of ourselves," Carolyn Cathey, a local Colorado Springs LGBTQ activist, said. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- People waited in line to reveal their support for the person who helped take down the accused shooter at LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado. Richard Fierro owns a brewery in Colorado Springs that reopened on Saturday for the first time since the shooting. SEE ALSO | Colorado club shooting: 'Hero' Army veteran who stopped suspected gunman says he feels 'no joy' "I'm not a hero," Fierro said. "You know, everybody else in that room was a hero with us." Some people drove for hours to help Fierro and his business. "He saved a lot of people's lives," one person said. "He could have been killed. This brave gentleman in here, he deserves all the respect he can get." The accused shooter is being held without bond. He has a court hearing scheduled next week. Editor's note: The Club Q shooting suspect identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, according to court documents filed by their defense attorneys. This article has been updated to reflect the proper pronouns. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The five people killed, as well as two heroes who stopped a shooter, were identified Monday afternoon following a Saturday night shooting at Club Q, a Queer nightclub in Colorado Springs. The shooting left five people dead and 19 people injured. Of the 19 hurt, 17 had at least one gunshot wound. One person was injured from something other than a gunshot wound and another victim did not have any apparent injuries, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD). At the beginning of a press conference on Monday afternoon, Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez said he wanted to start off by naming the victims who were killed. Vasquez said this is how they identified themselves and how their families have identified them: A U.S. Army veteran who stopped a suspected gunman from fatally shooting more people at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado said he'd never been in a situation like that before, despite his years in the military -- but that everyone in the club that late hours was in the foxhole together. Richard Fierro spoke about confronting and stopping a suspected gunman after he allegedly killed five people at Club Q in Colorado Springs on Saturday night. "So everyone in there has their own individual heroic stories," he told ABC News' Matt Gutman. "And why I utter combat is because that's the equal thing when you go downrange. Everyone has a part to play." "And in that moment, everybody in that club was in your foxhole," Gutman said. "Everybody. And we were all diving for cover," Fierro said. "You take cover and then you respond. You respond to action." Fierro said he yanked the suspected gunman, Anderson Lee Aldrich, from behind and he fell backward. A cause who watched the surveillance video from the club told ABC News that FierAmerica's LGBTQ community says the massacre at Club Q in Colorado Springs was a disaster waiting to happen
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