Late on Friday, September 22, 2000, Gay walked into the Backstreet Cafe and ordered a beer. Related: Texas High School Bans Pulse Set Graphic Novel Over ‘Extreme Homosexuality’ The shooting, which happened a week after the local Pride festival, was the last major gay bar shooting before the 2016 shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Ronald Gay – a 75-year-old former Marine who killed one man and injured six others in his September 2000 shootout of the Backstreet Cafe gay bar in Roanoke, Virginia – died of natural causes while a prisoner In a hospital.
