Daniel Aston was a transgender bartender at Club Q in Colorado Springs and was killed in Saturday's shooting, his mother told The Post. He was raised in the Tulsa suburbs but followed his family to Colorado two years ago, finding community at Club Q.
“Some guys jumped on the shooter and saved some people,” she said. “Unfortunately, it wasn’t Daniel. He never made it to the hospital.”
He started hormone treatments at age 19, while attending Northeastern State University, where he led the LGBTQ student group, she said. Aston said she and her husband were woken up by a phone call from one of Aston’s friends about 2 a.m. Sunday and rushed to UCHealth Memorial Hospital, which was on lockdown because it was also treating the suspected gunman. The Astons spotted a few other parents of the injured and welcomed them into their car. Eventually, hospital staff ushered the group inside.
Aston suspects the shooting was a hate crime, but none of her son’s friends seems to have known the suspected gunman, she said.
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