Colorado gay club shooting victims

The victims of the shooting at the LGBTQ-friendly Club Q in Colorado Springs include two bartenders, the mother of an year-old girl and two other clubgoers who were enjoying a carefree night before a lone gunman started firing indiscriminately. She recalled how liberated he seemed as he slid across the club's stage on his knees, delighting the crowd.

Sabrina Aston colorado the killing of her son, a transgender man, as a "nightmare that you can't wake up from. They've made a mistake and that he's really alive," she told the AP. She said she first heard about the attack early Sunday, when one of her son's friends called to tell her that Aston was in the hospital.

She rushed to Memorial Hospital to be with him, but she was told to wait at home for an update. I was really close with her. Bingham, 25, recalled her final words to Loving before they hung up: "Be safe, I love you. Bingham said she first met Loving, a transgender woman, when they were working at the same club in Florida nearly a decade ago.

But she was the exact opposite. She was warm, welcoming, and she took me under her wing. Loving, like many trans people, found herself the target of violence, including a previous shooting and a stabbing, Bingham said. Bingham knows the horrors of gun violence all too well: She said that she relocated from Florida to Colorado after she survived the massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, in June Bingham settled in Denver, and Loving recently moved there, too.

The two friends were supposed to spend Thanksgiving together. Now, Bingham said, she is determined to pay victim to Loving's memory in any way she can. Ashley Paugh was capping off a day trip in Colorado Springs with a night of fun at Club Q when the gunman opened fire, her sister said.

Stephanie Clark said Paugh was a loving mother and wife who was devoted to her family, including her year-old daughter. The two friends got a bite to eat, went shopping and planned to end the shooting at Club Q, gay they were expecting a comedian to perform, Clark club.

She was a loving, caring person who would do anything for anybody. We're gonna miss her so much. Friends said Rump was a bartender at Club Q who was endearingly sassy and brutally honest.

What we know about the victims of the Colorado Springs Club Q shooting

Gallagher recalled that Rump teased him for the way he applied his makeup in the bathroom. They went back and forth on the subject until Rump blurted out: "You know I'm right. Raymond Green Vance's girlfriend paid tribute to him in a Facebook post on Monday. I need a smile," Kassy Fierro wrote in the post.

Fierro's father, decorated Army veteran Richard Fierro, was one of two people who tackled and subdued the gunman inside the nightclub, his wife said Monday. She turned to a co-worker and said she felt so sorry for the victims. He agreed, saying it feels like there's always a shooting somewhere these days.