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On September 22, 2000, 54-year-old Ronald Edward Gay opened fire inside Backstreet Cafe, a predominately gay bar in Roanoke, Virginia, United States. Gay murdered one man and injured six others. Gay described himself as a "Christian soldier" and said that all LGBTQ "meeting places and bars will be destroyed" if gay people did not move to San Francisco. Police said that he was also angry over the connotations of his surname, although he later denied this was the case, and that he was upset that two of his sons had changed their surnames. On July 23, 2001, Gay was found guilty of one count of first-degree murder, three counts of aggravated malicious wounding, and three suspended counts of malicious wounding, and sentenced to four consecutive life terms. Gay died at a hospital on January 15, 2022, of natural causes.
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