It was the first time that Richard Fierro was in a nightclub watching a drag show – a popular type of show performed by artists drag — when he began to hear shots. The war veteran was at Club Q in Colorado last Saturday when an attacker fired at several people, causing five deaths (including his daughter’s boyfriend) and 18 wounded.
Shooting at a gay bar in the US leaves five dead and 18 injured. The suspect is a 22-year-old man.
Fierro —who was at the disco with his wife, daughter, boyfriend and several friends— was invaded by the instincts acquired during his mobilizations in Iraq and Afghanistan, as he described in an interview with the New York Times, and he launched into the Water. attacker, disarmed him and hit him with his own weapon. “I don’t know exactly what I did, I just went into combat mode”, remember. Thanks to the veteran, the attack only lasted a few minutes and his quick reaction prevented several fatalities.
Upon entering the discotheque, the attacker began firing a shotgun, which he released after Fierro threw him to the ground and jumped on top of him, preventing him from escaping. When he realized that the man also had a gun, he took it from her hand and used it to repeatedly hit him in the head, ordering a customer to go grab his shotgun and kick him in the face while a drag she stepped on his back with heels????????
By the time police arrived on the scene, the attacker was no longer trying to get free. Fierro was covered in blood and had a gun in his hand. The authorities handcuffed him and locked him in the service car for more than an hour, fearing he was a threat. The veteran spent all this time without knowing how his family and friends were doing. The next day, they received the news that the daughter’s boyfriend, Raymond Green Vance, who had disappeared in the “chaos” the night of the attack, was shot dead???????? “My girl screamed and I cried with her”.
Richard Fierro served 15 years in the military and received two medals for his service. This day, he and his wife run a brewery called Atrevida Beer Co. that has already been honored with several tourism and entrepreneurship awards.
Source: Observadora
