Colorado Springs Shooter's Father Was More Worried To Learn His Son Might Be Gay Than About The Actual Killings?!

24.11.2022 - 05:17 / perezhilton.com

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It’s certainly not a shock to learn the Colorado Springs shooter had a terrible home life. We’re talking about a 22-year-old who walked into a nightclub with a rifle and killed five strangers. But this is… something else altogether.

Days after the horrific mass shooting at the LGBTQ-friendly Club Q, CBS 8 out of San Diego tracked down the gunman’s father, who lives there — and hasn’t seen his kid in years. The excerpts from his interview are… shocking to say the least.

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First off we learned the man is a porn star. He was also on the A&E reality show Intervention because of a meth addiction. Shockingly he didn’t even know his son was alive until a few months before the shooting. He explained that the mother had told him in 2016 that their son had died by suicide:

This may have been to protect their son — who would have been a minor at that point — from him. He explained that they’d tried to create as much distance as possible because of his past:

That may be true, but there may be another reason for the name change. Late Tuesday night the shooter’s attorneys also mentioned they’re non-binary — and go by they/them pronouns. That alone may have been enough reason to create a barrier between father and son. If the father even knew, of course. Per The Daily Beast, the shooter’s mom clearly didn’t know about the non-binary identity, because in a text message from the day of the shooting, the mother refers to the shooter with he/him pronouns.

In either case, what comes next in the father’s interview is perhaps the single most homophobic thing we’ve ever heard. It’s incredibly disturbing, but it’s important context…

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