The club was a few minutes from their home, and after one of Daniel’s friends told them he’d been shot, they rushed to the emergency room – only to find he’d never arrived.ĭaniel Aston was 4 when he told his mother he was a boy, and it was another decade before he came out as transgender, his mother told the newspaper.
This is the hero who stopped the attack.He was a light in my life, and it’s surreal that we’re even talking about him in the past tense like this.”
He added that Aston was an “amazing person. He made me want to come into work, and he made me want to be a part of the positive culture we were trying to create there,” Anderson said. “He was the best supervisor anybody could’ve asked for. He thought he was going to die, said a prayer and as he moved to escape the scene, he saw two people who he didn’t know beating and kicking the gunman, he said.Īnderson was crushed to learn Aston hadn’t made it out of the bar, which Colorado Springs’ LGBTQ community considered a safe space. The night of the shooting, Anderson saw the gunman and ducked behind the bar where he and Aston worked as glass rained down around him, he told CNN on Monday. Colorado Springs Police DepartmentĪston, 28, was a bar supervisor at Club Q, said bartender Michael Anderson, who had known Aston for a few years and considered him a friend. I don’t think we’ll ever be able to be exactly the same.”ĭaniel Aston worked as a supervisor at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado. “I don’t think that our community could ever replicate the sense of Club Q that it was with Derrick and Daniel. They made everybody feel like they could be exactly who they are all the time,” Hazelwood said. “If anybody was having a hard time, if anybody was new to the community – they always had open arms for everybody, even people who weren’t part of the LGBTQ community could go there and celebrate their friendships, their allyships because (Derrick and Daniel) made everybody feel safe. It wasn’t just LGBTQ patrons they welcomed, either, she said. It’s a facility that gave us a safe space to be who we are all the time, and Derrick and Daniel especially were always the glue … the heart that kept everything together.” We say the Club Q community because that’s what it is here in Colorado Springs. “Derrick and Daniel were the light and the heart of Club Q,” she said. When Hazelwood first arrived in the city, she was unsure what the LGBTQ scene might look like, and it was people like Rump and Aston who made Club Q feel like home, she said.ĭerrick Rump and Daniel Aston were the heart and glue of Club Q, Jessi Hazelwood says. If you walked into the club and heard Britney Spears playing, you knew Rump was working the bar, said Jessi Hazelwood, who met Rump and Aston shortly after moving to Colorado Springs. “They were just amazing, and every bar should have a Daniel and a Derrick,” Kelley said. Tiara Kelley, who performed at the club the night before the incident, told CNN Rump and his coworker Daniel Aston were polar opposites in many ways, but worked well together. “He made a difference in so many people’s lives, and that’s where he wanted to be.” From Derrick Rump/Facebookĭerrick Rump was a bartender at Club Q who had “found a community of people that he loved really much, and he felt that he could shine there – and he did,” his sister Julia Kissling told CNN affiliate WFMZ. Derrick Rump had found a community he loved at Club Q, his sister says.
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