Victims and family members of those killed in the 2022 mass shooting at the LGBTQIA+ Club Q in Colorado Springs have sued the El Paso County Board of Commissioners and others, alleging authorities could have prevented the shooting if they had enforced the state’s “red flag law” against the gunman.

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.

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.