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.

Victims of a deadly 2022 shooting attack on a gay nightclub in Colorado have sued local authorities, accusing them of failing to enforce a red flag gun law they say could have prevented the violence.

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.