Suspect in mass shooting at Colorado gay nightclub Club Q expected to take plea deal

The New York Post ^ | 06/15/2023 | Staff

[thegagline]

The Club Q shooting suspect accused of killing five people and wounding 17 in Colorado Springs last November will spend life in prison as part of a plea deal they’re expected to strike, survivors of the attack said.

Anderson Lee Aldrich, 23, faces more than 300 state charges over the fatal shooting, with the accused killer expected to get at least a life sentence after recently expressing remorse and their intention to enter a guilty plea.

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“Someone’s gone that can never be brought back through the justice system,” said Kent, who lost his partner, Daniel Aston, a Club Q employee working behind the bar. “We are all still missing a lot, a partner, a son, a daughter, a best friend.”

The development comes after the suspect’s jailhouse phone calls with AP reporters, where they reveal they regretted gunning down innocent people and the need “to take responsibility for what happened.”

“Nothing’s ever going to bring back their loved ones. People are going to have to live with injury that can’t be repaired,” Aldrich, who identifies as nonbinary, added, stopping short of providing a motive for the shooting.

*** Since their arrest, Aldrich has come out as nonbinary, allegedly visiting the club at least six times prior to the shooting.

District Attorney Michael Allen, however, said Aldrich administered a “neo-Nazi white supremacists” website that hosted a shooting training video and often expressed hatred for LGBTQ people, minorities, and even police.

Allen also claimed the suspect’s mother made him go to the club “against his will and sort of forced that culture on him.” ***

[thegagline]

A nonbinary neo-Nazi white supremacist whose motther forced him to frequent a gay club against his will.

They certainly don’t make (nonbinary) neo-Nazi white supremacists like they used to.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "A nonbinary neo-Nazi white supremacist whose motther forced him to frequent a gay club against his will. They certainly don't make (nonbinary) neo-Nazi white supremacists like they used to."

That's very amusing.

So many of these mass shootings have links to gender confusion, messed up parents, pharmaceutical drugs and more. Which is why the press finds it so difficult to understand or make any connections between them.

[Bonemaker]

Probably get him on a noise ordinance violation.

[Chode]

his court appearance...

[mj1234]

LOL

So I think i saw a movie about this..

the mother was always yelling at the kid..

and he liked dressing up in women’s clothes..

ended up killing innocent women

Alfred Hitchcock’s- PSYCHO!

Who knew he was making a documentary-

[Verginius Rufus]

Any relation to Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (who was named for his maternal grandfather)?

[BobL]

“will spend life in prison”

Try “MAY spend life in prison”, since it only takes one judge or one governor to spring him. That’s the main reason that I support the Death Penalty - here in Texas we have a PERFECT RECORD regarding executions - no one has EVER committed another crime after being executed, not even shoplifting or supporting Putin.