LAKEWOOD, Ohio — Dozens gathered in Lakewood Tuesday night to remember the lives lost, along with those hurt and affected by the shooting at a gay club in Colorado Springs over the weekend.

What You Need To Know

  • A candlelight vigil for the Colorado Springs shooting victims was held at Studio West 117, a new LGBTQ+ entertainment and dining complex just outside of Cleveland that opened this fall

  • Studio West 117 is now one of the largest of its kind in the nation

  • Since Saturday’s massacre at Club Q in Colorado, Studio West 117 has made resources and support available to any of its employees who may be struggling following the tragedy out west

  • Studio West 117 said it's also heightened its security in response to the shooting at Club Q

A candlelight vigil was held at Studio West 117, a new LGBTQ+ entertainment and dining complex just outside of Cleveland that opened this fall.

Members of the LGBTQ+ community and its allies began the vigil by reading the names of the five people killed in the shooting Saturday night at Club Q, an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs.

The victims, whose ages ranged from 22 to 40, included both employees and patrons of the nightclub. Along with the five killed, police said 18 others were injured.

“We are in a state of grieving,” said Mars Harper Jenkins, public relations and media manager for Studio West 117. “I think the entire LGBTQ+ community is wounded."

Since Saturday’s shooting in Colorado, Studio West 117 has made resources and support available to any of its employees who may be struggling.

“We are really just looking to connect to our community and see how we’re all doing after such a horrible thing that happened,” Jenkins said.

The safety and security of its employees and patrons, she said, has also been top of mind.

“It’s on the forefront of our minds,” said Jenkins, talking about the fear surrounding a possible attack, similar to the one in Colorado Springs, happening here in Ohio at Studio West 117.

“We’re just making sure we have all of our security measures in place,” she said, noting that security has been heightened at Studio West 117 in response to the Club Q shooting.

“We have people who are in plain clothes so you wouldn’t know they were security, but they’re here 24/7,” Jenkins said, adding that security in uniform is also on hand at the complex. “Unfortunately, when things like that [a shooting] happen, there’s very little prep time. There’s just ‘We have a plan, we enact it and we do the best to save as many lives as we can.’”