Rich Fierro awarded Latin group's Presidential Medal; survivors speak out: Colorado Springs shooting live updates

On Monday he took his first steps since he collapsed at Club Q early Sunday morning.

"When they told me I had seven bullet holes in my back, I was like, 'Well, peace ...,'" he said in the post.

'DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO SCREAM': As the shooting started at Club Q, bodies fell, and an Army vet rose.

►Mourners held candles and listened to speakers during the Club Q Remembrance and Radicalization vigil in Colorado Springs on Monday night.

►Thirteen victims remained hospitalized Monday, officials said.

when I tried to get up, I saw the ACUs, the armor plates," he said

“I love them,” Fierro said of the city’s LGBTQ community

The victims included Raymond Green Vance, 22, whose girlfriend's father was credited with overpowering the shooter and halting the massacre; Ashley Paugh, 35, a mother who helped find homes for foster children; Daniel Aston, 28, who had worked at the club as a a bartender and entertainer; Kelly Loving, 40, whose sister described her as “caring and sweet”; and Derrick Rump, 38, another club bartender who was known for his quick wit and adopting his friends as his family