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2 patrons confront the suspect who opened fire at an LGBTQ club in Colorado

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A deadly shooting at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub Saturday night has left the local community in shock. Five people were killed and more than two dozen were hurt before the gunman was subdued².

A MART?NEZ, HOST:

Police in Colorado Springs, Colo., are investigating why a gunman opened fire in an LGBTQ nightclub late Saturday night.

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Five people were killed; 25 others were hurt in the attack at Club Q before patrons subdued that gunman.

MART?NEZ: Colorado Public Radio's Dan Boyce is here to catch us up on the latest.

Dan, first, let's go over the timeline from Saturday night because all of this happened really fast.

DAN BOYCE, BYLINE³: Yeah. You know, it really did. So police - they received the first 911 call at 11:56 on Saturday night that a man had entered the club with multiple firearms and had begun shooting people with a rifle. Now, the first officer arrived within four minutes, and 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich was in custody⁴ just two minutes after that. Still, by that point, more than 20 people had been shot and, as you say, five of them fatally.

MART?NEZ: And we'd heard that people in the club actually subdued him before police got there.

BOYCE: Yeah. It's a remarkable⁵ showing of courage. Officials say at least two individuals fought with Aldrich, you know, hand to hand, shortly after he entered, and they were able to stop his advance. Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers says they did that through one of them grabbing a handgun the suspect was carrying and then hitting him with it.

MART?NEZ: Wow. Do we have any names of any victims?

BOYCE: At this point, officials have not released any names of victims, nor of those people who confronted Aldrich. My newsroom has confirmed one of those killed was a bartender at the club. Twenty-eight-year-old Daniel Aston was a trans man who was also performing on Saturday night.

MART?NEZ: The suspect, we know, remains⁶ in the hospital and in police custody. What more do we know about him?

BOYCE: Police say he was hospitalized because he was hurt in that fight with the club patrons who stopped him. We don't know the extent of his injuries, and police say they did not shoot him. We do not yet have any word on a motive⁷ from investigators⁸, but it may not be his first run-in with local law enforcement. A man by the same name and age was booked in our county jail last year. He had threatened his mother with homemade bombs, weapons and ammunition⁹. Officials did not tell us Sunday how that case was resolved, nor have they actually confirmed that this is the Anderson Lee Aldrich, that it's the same man as the Club Q shooting suspect. Again, though, it's the same name and age.

MART?NEZ: All right. Now, what about Club Q itself and also the LGBTQ community in Colorado Springs? How are they handling things?

BOYCE: Well, the club is closed until further notice. I visited yesterday, and it was taped off, and, you know, there was one of these large makeshift memorials with flowers and signs. Well-wishers and many club regulars see Club Q as really the biggest hub for the gay community here. And the people who go there - they know each other. So, of course, they're deeply shaken. And one of the hardest elements now is they still don't know which of their friends may have been killed.

Still, I spoke¹⁰ with Shenika Mosley. She first moved to Colorado Springs 14 years ago when she was in military service. She says she hopes the public does not take the wrong lesson about her city - often known for its conservative politics.

SHENIKA MOSLEY: I have not been held back in any job. I've not been treated any type of way by any friends or by anyone in the community because I'm gay. And so I just don't want people to think that Colorado Springs is, like, anti-gay. Like, I feel like, honestly, like, Colorado Springs is one of the safest places for us.

BOYCE: But Mosley does worry Club Q will never quite feel like the same place again. And now Colorado is holding candlelight vigils for the victims, like we've done for Columbine, the Aurora¹¹ theater shooting, the Boulder¹² grocery store shooting just last year and others. The state has seen more than its share of tragedies like this.

MART?NEZ: That's Dan Boyce from Colorado Public Radio.

Dan, thank you.

BOYCE: You're welcome.

1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 subdued   

adj. 屈服的，柔和的，减弱的 动词subdue的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He seemed a bit subdued to me. 我觉得他当时有点闷闷不乐。
• I felt strangely subdued when it was all over. 一切都结束的时候，我却有一种奇怪的压抑感。

3 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

4 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

5 remarkable   

adj.显著的，异常的，非凡的，值得注意的

参考例句：

• She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
• These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。

6 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

7 motive   

n.动机，目的；adv.发动的，运动的

参考例句：

• The police could not find a motive for the murder.警察不能找到谋杀的动机。
• He had some motive in telling this fable.他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。

8 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 ammunition   

n.军火，弹药

参考例句：

• A few of the jeeps had run out of ammunition.几辆吉普车上的弹药已经用光了。
• They have expended all their ammunition.他们把弹药用光。

10 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

11 aurora   

n.极光

参考例句：

• The aurora is one of nature's most awesome spectacles.极光是自然界最可畏的奇观之一。
• Over the polar regions we should see aurora.在极地高空,我们会看到极光。

12 boulder   

n.巨砾；卵石，圆石

参考例句：

• We all heaved together and removed the boulder.大家一齐用劲，把大石头搬开了。
• He stepped clear of the boulder.他从大石头后面走了出来。