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The gunman who opened fire at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs on Saturday night was subdued by a patron who snatched a handgun from the shooter and struck him with the firearm, according to the city’s mayor.
Mayor John Suthers told CNN’s Jim Acosta on Sunday that police were called to Club Q at 11:57 p.m. and responded within three minutes.
But the deadly shooting, which claimed the lives of five people and injured at least 25 others, was over by the time police arrived at 12:02 a.m. because of two “heroic” individuals who took down the gunman before officers arrived, Suthers said.
“[The patron] appears to have taken a handgun, [the suspect] had a handgun with him, and used it to disable him,” Suthers said on CNN, clarifying the patron hit him with the weapon and did not pull the trigger to fire it.
