►The League of United Latin American Citizens is awarding its Presidential Medal and $5,000 to an Army veteran who helped stop the assault. “Rich Fierro … leaped into the breach to place his own body between (loved ones) and those enemies who would do us harm,” the group’s president, Domingo Garcia, said Tuesday.
►Mourners held candles and listened to speakers during the Club Q Remembrance and Radicalization vigil in Colorado Springs on Monday night.
►Thirteen people who were injured in the shooting remained hospitalized, officials said. Five had been treated and released.
Some of the 17 people shot in the rampage at an LGBTQ nightclub on Saturday are recovering from their wounds and sharing harrowing stories of a near-death experience in what they had viewed as a safe space.
Barrett Hudson was shot seven times as he tried to flee. He called his father and prepared to die. On Monday, he took his first steps since he collapsed at Club Q early Sunday.
“When they told me I had seven bullet holes in my back, I was like, ‘Well, peace …,'” he said in a post. “I cannot believe I’m alive. I should not be alive.”
Jerecho Loveall 30, scrambled to safety amid the chaos. Once outside, he realized he was bleeding. A bullet had entered through a shin and exited through the side of his leg. He went to a hospital, where physicians recommended leaving the wound open, so the leg would naturally push out the shrapnel.
