Patrons will receive personal property that was left in the club starting Tuesday.
According to Colorado Springs police, the number of homicide investigations in Colorado Springs for 2022 was 47 after the five shootings. CSPD had been investigating 40 killings in the last year.
Kevin J. Beaty/DenveriteClub Q could have caused more deaths
James and Richard Fierro were both credited with interceding with the attack and subduing a gunman. He released a statement on Sunday while still in hospital.
“I simply wanted to save the family I found. If I could, I would protect everyone from the hateful acts of hatred in the world. But I am just one person.
Courtesy U.S. NavyWe are family and look after each other, which is a blessing. We’ve come a long distance from Stonewall. Bullies aren’t invincible.
I am here to support anyone who has experienced the loss and pain that have been so common in recent years. My thoughts are with those who lost their loved ones on Nov. 19, as well as those still recovering from their injuries.
I urge you, youth, to be brave. Your family is there. You are valued and loved. So when you come out of the closet, come out swinging.”
James joined Navy in 2011, and was stationed at Peterson Air Force Base (Colorado Springs) as an active duty member of the Navy. According to Col. Elizabeth Mathias. PhD, USAF Director for Public Affairs. She said that James hasn’t yet been able to conduct media interviews.
Brewery fundraising raises thousands for victims
Estimates of the funds raised from breweries also started rolling in Monday. Each of the 30 Colorado Springs-area breweries committed to donating $2 per sale or another portion of their profits to an organization that would help victims and survivors of the massacre.
“BREWS FOR Q: Colorado Springs Multi-Brewery Fundraiser for Club Q Victims and Families” was organized by Teresa Vieira, managing partner of Peaks N Pines Brewery, which has one location in Fountain and another in Colorado Springs. She stated that both spots raised more than $1,000 together. In the coming days, she’ll know how much the other breweries will chip in.
“I was going to send an email out to all the breweries in town to get an estimate,” she said on Monday. “We need to give everyone time to calculate sales and stuff like that.”
The idea for the fundraiser was hatched when she learned that Fierro, who spent 15 years in the Army and has talked about how he used military tactics to stop the shooter, also co-owns a beer company called Atrevida (which means “daring” in Spanish). Kassy, her daughter, was injured in the knee and her 22-year old boyfriend was killed.
”We take care of our own, and when somebody in our group is impacted by something so severe,” Vieira said. “We not only wanted to help the Club Q victims, before we knew one of our own was involved, but after learning [that], it just made it that much more of an urgency that we wanted to do something.”
People who knew the victims of violence remember them and they are still in their hearts.
A similar urgency was felt by Michael “Rufio” Jimenez, 35 of Denver. Derrick Rump (38), was one of the five victims. He was a close friend.
Other participants include Daniel Aston, 28, Ashley Green Paugh 35, Raymond Green Vance 22 and Kelly Loving 40.