Posted on 11/20/2022 2:47:02 PM PST by FarCenter
Anderson Lee Aldrich is the 22-year-old suspect accused of perpetrating a mass shooting at Club Q, a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The November 19, 2022, left five dead and 25 injured.
The active-shooter burst into the nightclub with a long rifle and opened fire inside just before midnight, Colorado Springs Police Lieutenant Pamela Castro said in an early morning news conference on November 20. Aldrich was subdued by heroic patrons, who were credited with saving lives, Castro said.
Heavy has confirmed that Aldrich is the grandson of outgoing Republican State Assemblymember Randy Voepel, the former mayor of Santee, California. Voepel represents the 71st district in the San Diego area. There were calls to expel Voepel from the state Assembly after he made comments comparing the January 6 attacks to the Revolutionary War. Aldrich’s mother, Laura Voepel, has written posts praising Randy Voepel on Facebook and confirming he is her father.
“This is Lexington and Concord. First shots fired against tyranny,” Randy Voepel, who was defeated in a Republican primary in August 2022, said in a San Diego Union-Tribune article three days after January 6. “Tyranny will follow in the aftermath of the Biden swear-in on January 20th.” According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, Voepel “later tweeted that he condemned violence and lawlessness.” Voepel and his office did not immediately respond to requests for comments from Heavy.
Aldrich was arrested in 2021 after his mother reported to police he was threatening to harm her with a homemade bomb and multiple weapons, according to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office. He was arrested after a standoff and charged with six felonies. But he was not prosecuted, records show. The El Paso County district attorney has not commented on why the case was dropped.
Authorities said the Colorado Springs active shooting is being investigated through the “lens” of a hate crime, but that has not been definitively determined.
“It is with a heavy heart that I have to tell you that we had a shooting at a local club this evening,” Castro, the police spokesperson in Colorado Springs, said. No officer-involved shooting was involved.
Authorities said that Anderson Aldrich is a 22-year-old male. Authorities have not yet released a photo of Aldrich; the photos Heavy has found are a few years old, so he looks younger in them than he likely looks today. Some people are falsely sharing a picture of Raleigh, North Carolina, Christmas parade suspect Landon Glass on Twitter and saying it is Aldrich. Glass has nothing to do with the Club Q shooting.
I looked up the name earlier, and the picture was a man that looked around 65 y/o.
Obviously the wrong pic.
> subdued by patrons...
Long rifle in a crowded night club doesn’t allow for maneuverability.
Probably on mind altering drugs. Either way he’s a fricken weirdo nut job that should have been put away a long time ago.
Just like in Idaho, the question surround law enforcement, prosecution, or judiciary, not doing their jobs due to favoritism.
“… Aldrich was arrested in 2021 after his mother reported to police he was threatening to harm her with a homemade bomb and multiple weapons…”
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Yeppers…. He’s a NUTCASE.
The media are making him out to be a triggered J6er. Nice.
so not an old white guy?
Was he wearing his MAGA hat?
It is a big stretch to connect him to GOP because his supposed grandfather said the Biden Regime would be tyrannical.
Just wow...
And, as usual, no mention of a father.
Yeah, but was it a “black” rifle?
So far the media has not denounced Aldrich as a Republican so I’d say that’s a likely indicator he’s a Democrat.
It’s the best that they could do, on short notice./ sarc.
Well, it was long....
He sure does offer a large target. Can’t hardly miss
Just like all RAT mass murderers, the bastards just blew him off and no charges were brought. Once again, the friggin’ judicial system failed Americans and got five of them killed because the lazy bastards didn’t do their jobs. They put a future mass murderer back on the street. IDIOTS!!!!
Was it a Kentucky Long Rifle?
“the photos Heavy has found are a few years old, so he looks younger in them than he likely looks today.”
For some odd reason, nobody ever bothered to include language like this to accompany the childhood pictures of Trayvon Martin or any of a hundred other criminals. For some reason.
If Andy Aldritch is that young man first pictured on the
Heavy website, it’s obvious that he is in some manner handicapped or developmentally delayed.
He should have been charged when he threatened his mother with a homemade bomb. He should never have gotten access to any guns. Perhaps that one was stolen from home.
If that is the correct person featured, I see him again in a group family photo. It looks like he needs help or support to stand up.
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