Victims and family members of those killed in the 2022 mass shooting at the LGBTQIA+ Club Q in Colorado Springs have sued the El Paso County Board of Commissioners and others, alleging authorities could have prevented the shooting if they had enforced the state’s “red flag law” against the gunman.

The legal documents say that law enforcement “willfully and wantonly ignored the shooter’s warning signs” before the massacre at Club Q that killed five.

Victims and family members of the Club Q shooting are suing the El Paso County commissioners and sheriff for failing to use the red flag law.

A central focus of both lawsuits was the El Paso County commissioners’ and the then sheriff’s refusal to enforce Colorado’s red flag law passed in 2019, which allows law enforcement to temporary take someone’s firearm if they are deemed a threat to themselves or others.

Victims who survived and mothers of those killed in the mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 2022 have filed lawsuits alleging that the murders could have been prevented if the local sheriff's office had used the state's red flag law to seize the killer's guns after clear warning signs appeared that he intended to commit violence.

Two years after a gunman opened fire in a Colorado Springs' LGBTQ+ nightclub killing five people and injuring 25 more, several survivors and victims’ families filed a lawsuit that alleges

People look at he flowers and mementos left at a memorial after a mass shooting at LGBTQ nightclub Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S. November 26, 2022. REUTERS/Isaiah J. Downing/File Photo (Reuters) - Victims of a deadly 2022 shooting attack on a gay nightclub in Colorado have sued local authorities,

Victims and family of those killed in the mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs in 2022 filed lawsuits Sunday against the El Paso County commissioners and former sheriff

Today marks two years since the mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs.