Shooter attack that killed 5 at Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub pleads guilty, gets life prison - CBS News

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• COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM
• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• SPECT MASS SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB IS EXPECTED TO TAKE A PLEA AL
• GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT EVAD COLORADO'S RED FLAG GUN LAW
• DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY
• COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT, VISIBLY JURED BY PATRONS, HELD WHOUT BAIL
• MAN WHO HELPED STOP SHOOTER AT COLORADO GAY CLUB ‘WANTED TO SAVE FAY I FOUND’
• SPECT MASS SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB CLUB Q EXPECTED TO TAKE PLEA AL
• SHOOTER ATTACK THAT KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY NIGHTCLUB PLEADS GUILTY, GETS LIFE PRISON
• ‘WE DON’T DO GAY’: FATHER OF COLORADO SHOOTER ANRSON LEE ALDRICH GO ON ANTI-GAY RANT BIZARRE TERVIEW

COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT CHARGED WH HATE CRIM

Aldrich, the spect acced of enterg a Colorado gay nightclub clad body armor and openg fire wh an AR-15-style rifle, killg five people and woundg 17 others, was charged by prosecutors Tuday wh 305 crimal unts cludg hate crim and murr. (AP) — The spect acced of enterg a Colorado gay nightclub clad body armor and openg fire wh an AR-15-style rifle, killg five people and woundg 17 others, was charged by prosecutors Tuday wh 305 crimal unts cludg hate crim and unts agast Anrson Lee Aldrich clu 48 hate crime charg, one for each person known to have been the club at the time. A 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrted by police who arrived wh mut, thori said spect the Saturday night shootg at Club Q ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon, a law enforcement official said.

GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY

Suthers said there was "reason to hope" that all of those hospalized would shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. He said patrons who tervened durg the attack were "heroic" and owed a bt of gratu for preventg more Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse.

SPECT MASS SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB IS EXPECTED TO TAKE A PLEA AL

Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, lled the shootg "sickeng.

GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT EVAD COLORADO'S RED FLAG GUN LAW

Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to prev month, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his small Boise ngregatn that gay, lbian and transgenr people should be executed by the ernment, which led up wh siar sermons om a Texas fundamentalist 2006, there have been 523 mass killgs and 2, 727 aths as of Nov. The spect a mass shootg at a Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub is expected to strike a plea al to state murr and hate charg that would ensure at least a life sentence for the attack that killed five people and wound 17, several survivors told The Associated of a possible legal rolutn of last year’s Club Q massacre follows a seri of jailhoe phone lls om the spect to the AP exprsg remorse and the tentn to face the nsequenc at the next schled urt hearg this month. Onle gamg iends said Aldrich exprsed hatred for the police, LGBTQ people and mori and ed anti-Black and anti-gay slurs.

And a police tective ttified that Aldrich sent an onle msage wh a photo of a rifle spe traed on a gay pri para. A Colorado Sprgs muny service vehicle is parked near a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colo., Sunday, Nov. Police say a 22-year-old gunman opened fire at the gay nightclub, Club Q, killg several people and leavg multiple people jured before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons.

DEFENSE: COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT IS NONBARY

(AP Photo/Geneva Heffernan) The Associated PrsBy BERNARD CONDON and COLLEEN SLEVIN, Associated PrsDENVER (AP) — A year and a half before he was arrted the Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub shootg that left five people ad, Anrson Lee Aldrich allegedly threatened his mother wh a homema bomb, forcg neighbors surroundg hom to evacuate while the bomb squad and crisis negotiators talked him to spe that sre, there’s no public rerd that prosecutors moved forward wh felony kidnappg and menacg charg agast Aldrich, or that police or relativ tried to trigger Colorado’s “red flag" law that would have allowed thori to seize the weapons and ammo the man’s mother says he had wh ntrol advot say Aldrich’s June 2021 threat is an example of a red flag law ignored, wh potentially adly nsequenc. People embrace durg a ndlelight vigil on a rner near the se of a weekend mass shootg at a gay bar, late Monday, Nov.

COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT, VISIBLY JURED BY PATRONS, HELD WHOUT BAIL

(AP) — The alleged gunman facg possible hate crime charg the fatal shootg of five people at a Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub is nonbary, the spect's fense team says urt several standard motns filed on behalf of Anrson Lee Aldrich on Tuday, public fenrs refer to the spect as “Mx. Addnally, a YouTube acunt was opened Brk's name that clud an animatn tled “Asian homosexual gets molted. Speakg a vio statement released by UC Health Memorial Hospal, Ed Sanrs said he thought about what he would do a mass shootg after the 2016 massacre of 49 people at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida.

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A member of the US navy who was jured while helpg prevent further harm durg a shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado last weekend said on Sunday that he “simply wanted to save the fay that I found” officer 2nd class Thomas Jam ma his first public ments on the shootg a statement issued through Centura Penrose hospal Colorado Sprgs, where Jam is reverg om undisclosed juri suffered durg the Colorado Sprgs police chief, Adrian Vasquez, said that Jam was one of two men who helped to stop the shooter who walked to Club Q late on 19 November wh multiple firearms, cludg a semitomatic rifle, and killed five least 17 others were jured when a drag queen’s birthday celebratn turned to a reportedly phed a rifle out of the shooter’s reach while army veteran Rich Fierro repeatedly stck the shooter wh a handgun the shooter brought to the bar, officials have said.

MAN WHO HELPED STOP SHOOTER AT COLORADO GAY CLUB ‘WANTED TO SAVE FAY I FOUND’

Colorado’s ernor, Jared Polis, the first openly gay man elected ernor the US, appeared on TV sayg he supported creasg licensg requirements for semitomatic weapons, improvg mental health servic and better e of red flag laws that allow urts to remove weapons om people havg mental health cris and who may be a danger.

22, 2022, wh photographs of the five victims of a mass shootg at the gay.

SPECT MASS SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB CLUB Q EXPECTED TO TAKE PLEA AL

Photographs of victims of a mass shootg at a gay nightclub are on display at a memorial on November 23, 2022, Colorado Sprgs, Colorado. ”The killgs rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.

The father of Anrson Lee Aldrich — the spect a mass shootg at a Colorado nightclub — spewed anti-gay ments a ramblg, herent explanatn of his relatnship wh his tranged son. The dad bizarrely claimed durg an terview wh CBS 8- San Diego that his first ncern upon learng his son allegedly killed five at an LGBT tablishment was whether his child was homosexual. I was like ‘Oh my god, s–t, is he gay?

’ And he’s not gay, ” Aaron Brk, 48, said wh an exaggerated sigh of relief.

SHOOTER ATTACK THAT KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY NIGHTCLUB PLEADS GUILTY, GETS LIFE PRISON

I’m a nservative Republin and we don’t do gay. I n’t get answers om the attorneys really, but they’re sayg ’s volvg a gay bar.

I don’t know what the heck he did at a gay bar, ” Brk said. A CBS 8 reporter explaed to Brk that Aldrich is acced of orchtratg a mass shootg at a gay bar, killg five people and woundg many more.

‘WE DON’T DO GAY’: FATHER OF COLORADO SHOOTER ANRSON LEE ALDRICH GO ON ANTI-GAY RANT BIZARRE TERVIEW

“OK, well s–t, he’s acced of dog that, I’m glad he’s not gay. I n say that, I’m glad he’s not gay, ” Brk said a shockg rponse.