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The gunman later told police he had wanted to get rid of "faggots" with media reports suggesting his actions were motivated by long-simmering anger over jokes people made about his surname. Roanoke, Virginia - September 22, 2000: Ronald Edward Gay went on a shooting rampage at a bar frequented by homosexuals, killing one person and injuring six others. Although the suspected gunman was later arrested, the case against him collapsed in 2014. Tel Aviv - August 1, 2009: A teenage girl and a man in his 20s are killed and another 15 people wounded in a shooting attack on a gay youth centre in Tel Aviv. In a posting online, Shlissel had lashed out at the "abomination" of a Gay Pride parade being held in the Holy City.
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The attack was carried out by an ultra-Orthodox Jew called Yishai Shlissel who was released from prison three weeks earlier after serving 10 years for a similar attack at the same event in 2005. Jerusalem - July 30, 2015: A 16-year-old girl dies after being stabbed at a Gay Pride march in Jerusalem, where five other revellers were also wounded. Police have arrested a suspected Islamic militant over the attack in this deeply-conservative, Muslim-majority nation where the gay community has been heavily persecuted. Here is a list of several of the more high-profile attacks: - Dhaka, Bangladesh - April 26, 2016: Two leading gay rights activists are hacked to death inside an apartment in Dhaka by a group of men carrying machetes. The gay community worldwide has been hit by a number of vicious and sometimes deadly hate attacks, but Sunday's massacre at an Orlando nightclub was one of the worst.