#Gay bar shooting change update
We will update this story as more information becomes available.Īnyone with information is asked to call the Albany Police Detective Division at (518) 462-8039. In the early morning of June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen opened fire at Pulse, a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Organizers are adamant not to let violence destroy the spirit of Thanksgiving. When attacks on the gay community do occur as they have with regularity over the decades, from a 1973 arson attack on a New Orleans gay bar to the shooting attack in 2000 at a gay bar in. He has since handed over surveillance footage to the police.Ī dinner scheduled at the bar before the shooting occurred will still take place. Rocks bar owner says this is the first shooting at the bar and that there was ample security. On June 12, 2016, a gunman laid siege to a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., killing 49 and wounding dozens more in a mass shooting that horrified the nation. "Regardless, an act of violence happened in one of our community spaces and a life was lost in one of our sanctuaries,” read a statement from the Pride Center of the Capital Region. The shooter is still on the loose, but Smith assured the community “this was an isolated incident” and not an attack on the LGBTQ community. One male later died at Albany Medical Center hospital as a result of his injuries the three other victims all sustained non-life-threatening injuries.”
has sparked calls for Congress to look at imposing a ban on so-called assault weapons covering the types of guns used in both the recent Buffalo grocery attack and that on an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. AP Photo/Dennis CookA spate of high-profile mass shootings in the U.S. Around 2am on Thanksgiving day, police arrived at Rocks, a gay nightclub in Albany, NY where two men and two women were shot inside, according to WNYT.Īlbany police spokesman Steve Smith provided further details: "Two males and two females sustained a gunshot wound inside the bar. The Clinton-era ban on assault weapons ushered in a period of fewer mass shooting deaths.