{"id":142584,"date":"2023-06-10T11:11:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T15:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=142584"},"modified":"2023-06-10T11:11:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T15:11:37","slug":"army-veteran-who-disarmed-club-attacker-to-lead-pride-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=142584","title":{"rendered":"Army Veteran, who disarmed club attacker, to lead pride parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parade-people.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-142585\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parade-people.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parade-people.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parade-people.jpg?resize=333%2C333&amp;ssl=1 333w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parade-people.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parade-people.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parade-people.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Richard Fierro was one of the individuals who tackled the Club Q attacker. He was at this club in November, along with his family, when they and other customers came under threat from a shooter. With his family in mind, Fierro sprung to action. One of those who died that day was the boyfriend of Fierro&#8217;s daughter. Fierro will lead the first pride parade in this city since the club attack.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">From NBC News:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fierro, 45, who served in the military for 15 years, was at Club Q on Nov. 19, 2022, celebrating a birthday with his wife, their daughter and her friends when he disarmed the shooter, who had an AR-15-style rifle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just know I got into mode, and I needed to save my family &#8212; and my family was at that time everybody in that room,&#8221; Fierro said in a news conference days after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Fierro emphasized the importance of remembering those who died, including his daughter&#8217;s boyfriend, 22-year-old Raymond Green Vance, and the impact the tragedy had on their families.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those families are going to be hurting for forever and always changed. And that&#8217;s important for us to continue to acknowledge,&#8221; Fierro said this week.<\/p>\n<p>Pikes Peak Pride expects a turnout of around 15,000 attendees for the weekendlong celebration. The shooting victims will be honored Saturday in a special ceremony and tribute, featuring speeches by local politicians, survivors and victims&#8217; families.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>NBC News has additional information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nbc-out\/nbc-out-proud\/army-veteran-disarmed-club-q-attacker-lead-first-pride-parade-shooting-rcna88409\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Fierro was one of the individuals who tackled the Club Q attacker. He was at this club in November, along with his family, when they and other customers came under threat from a shooter. With his family in mind, Fierro sprung to action. One of those who died that day was the boyfriend of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-B5K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}