The shooting at the Backstreet Cafe, a gay bar in downtown Roanoke, was called in to police at 11:51 p.m. Police arrived at Corned Bee & Co by 11:39 p.m., and by 11:46 p.m. Bar for directions to a gay bar, flashed his gun, and declared his intentions, it was between 11:00 p.m. When Ronald Gay stopped to ask an employee at the Corned Bee & Co. That’s the amount of time that passed between the moment police arrived to take a report from a bar employee in Roanoke, VA, who called 911 - after a man asked for directions to a gay bar, flashed his gun, and said he was “wasting faggots” that night - and the the moment when the shooting at the Backstreet Cafe was called in to police.
