Club Q Colorado shooting: Hero patron’s intervention subdued shooter and saved lives
Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers has hailed people who were inside the gay club in Colorado as heroes for subduing a gunman and preventing the deadly shooting from being any worse.
He said one patron grabbed the shooter’s gun and hit him with it during the attack inside Club Q on Saturday night.
Another attendee reportedly helped keep the shooter pinned down until police arrived.
The gunman killed five people and injured 25 more before being arrested.
He has been named Anderson Lee Aldrich, 25 – he is now in police custody.
The mayor described the intervention from the club-goers as an “incredible act of heroism”.
The police were called at 11:57 pm and were on the scene by 12:00 – by 12:02 it was over.
“This incident was over by 12:02, and that’s largely because of the intervention of at least one, possibly two, very heroic individuals who subdued this guy… appears to have taken his handgun with them… and used it to disable him… not shoot but hit him with the gun, and disable him,” Mayor John Suthers said.
