Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A 22-year-old man is in police custody after at least five people died and another 18 were injured in a shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., just before midnight Sunday, police said.
The mass casualy event occurred at Club Q, until recently the only LGBTQ+ nightclub in the city of 484,000 residents.
The deadliest attack on the American LGBTQ community: 49 dead and another 53 injured at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando on June 12, 2016. Gunman Omar Mateen died in a shootout with police.
Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, was taken into custody at 12:02 a.m. just minutes after the shooting, Colorado Springs Police Lt. Pamela Castro said at a news conference. He is being treated for injuries at a local hospital, she said.
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