Getaway Deals up to 15 off with in April. Versace had just released his new winter collection and a glamorous television launch planned for the Spanish Steps in Rome has been cancelled. Police forensics investigators work at the crime scene of a mass shooting at the Pulse gay night club in Orlando. Orlando Gay Nightclub Worst Shooting Ever Is Another Blatant Hoax Editors. 49 people were killed and 53 other people were injured. Shooting at fag bar in Orlando This Just In. soil since the events of September 11, 2001. history, and the second deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. Tributes are pouring in from the many rich and famous friends who enjoyed wearing Versace's flamboyant designs.Īmongst them Princess Diana has issued a statement saying she was "devastated at the loss of a great and talented man". Pulse was a gay bar, dance club, and nightclub in Orlando, Florida, founded in 2004 by Barbara Poma and Ron Legler.On June 12, 2016, the club was the scene of the second worst mass shooting by a single gunman in U.S. Police have sealed off the area round the blood-stained steps to the house - Casa Casuarina - where Versace lived most of the time with his friend Antonio D'Amico.Īround the world Versace's stores have been closing as they received news of the tragedy. Pedro Almodvar is one of the great directors of our time and Bad Education is perhaps his. Hundreds of people have gathered opposite Versace's three-storey, Mediterranean style home, the only residential building in the art deco section of Ocean Drive. Miami police chief Richard Barreto described Cunanan as the sole suspect, but he did not know if he had any relationship with Versace. He is already on the FBI's most wanted list in connection with four other murders - all of the victims were, like Versace, homosexual. While Mateens family said that he had shown anger towards two gay. Police have traced the weapon to Andrew Cunanan, 27, a gay prostitute with an "affluent clientele". At the time of the shooting, it was unclear if this was an act of terrorism or a hate crime. Witnesses described a white man in his mid-twenties taking a gun from a backpack and shooting Versace twice in the back of the head as he unlocked the gates to his Ocean Drive home.Ī gun was found with discarded clothes in a red Chevrolet pick-up truck abandoned in a car park. The incident happened shortly before 0900 local time (1400 GMT) as the 50-year-old designer returned from the fashionable News Café where he bought breakfast and Italian newspapers. Elegant and exclusive lounge with good concerts and service.
#GAY BAR IN MIAMI SHOT UP TRIAL#
Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace has been shot dead on the steps of his Miami mansion. Orlando nightclub massacre: Deadly shooting at Pulse gay bar Orlando nightclub massacre Pulse shooting survivor reacts to verdict in trial of gunman's widow A Florida jury deliberated for just over. Here for a convention gathering but the show was nice ( people) and was very entertaining.