Discussion in Current Events, World News, & LGBT News started by Lance, Jun 18, 2016. Reports suggest that one person has been taken into custody and police have stated that the bar wasn't targeted and was it was an "isolated incident". LGBT News Unreported mass shooting at Mexican gay bar last month.
LGBTQ Nation reports that one of the victims died of his injuries at Albany Medical Centre while the others are expected to survive.
Police were called to the popular gay bar in Albany, New York, at 2 am on Thursday morning (November 24) after four people, two males and two females, had been shot and one of them, fatally. While nude dancers perform on stage, prostitutes lead customers toward the bar’s back rooms. While murders across the state dropped slightly to 339 in August from 403 in July, they may be rebounding in September as gang members fight to fill the vacuum left by Yépez Ortiz’s detention.One person has been killed and three others injured after a gunman opened fire at The Rocks Bar on Thanksgiving Day. On a Thursday night in Acuna, across the border from the Texas town of Del Rio, about 50 American men mingled with Mexican women at the Hunters Saloon beneath a glittering banner that proclaims in English: Welcome Hunters. The detained leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima gang, José Antonio Yépez Ortíz, was better known by his nickname “El Marro,” which means “The Sledgehammer.” He had long fought a bloody turf battle with the Jalisco cartel, and authorities blamed him for much of the violence in the industrial and farming state. A pair embrace after exiting Parliament House, a gay bar and resort where people were gathering on June 12, 2016, in the wake of the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Guanajuato has been the most violent state in Mexico in recent years, but authorities had hoped the detention of a leader of a local gang on Aug. There was no immediate information on a possible motive in the attack, but it bore the signs of a drug gang killing. Local media reported the four dead women may have been employed as dancers at the bar, located on the side of a highway. The clubs also helped cultivate some of the early seeds of gay activism in Los Angeles, years before the Stonewall riots in New York City. The area is near the border with Michoacán state, which has been a point of incursion for the Jalisco cartel, which wants to move into Guanajuato. State prosecutors said the bullet-ridden bodies were found at a bar near the town of Jaral del Progreso. Police officer shot near popular Atlanta restaurant, suspect in custody Matties Call: Peggy Washington Atlanta mayor pledges pay increases for firefighters. MEXICO CITY (AP) - Gunmen killed 11 people, including four women, early Sunday in a bar in the central Mexico state of Guanajuato.
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