Shooter Colorado gay nightclub attack pleads guilty, gets life prison | Rters

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• COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB SHOOTER’S CASE HEADS TO TRIAL
• SHOOTER COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB ATTACK PLEADS GUILTY, GETS LIFE PRISON
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
• GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG SPECT PLEADS GUILTY
• SHOOTER ATTACK THAT KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY NIGHTCLUB PLEADS GUILTY, GETS LIFE PRISON

COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB SHOOTER’S CASE HEADS TO TRIAL

A Navy sailor grabbed the barrel of a gunman’s rifle and an Army veteran shed to help as they end the adly mass shootg at the gay nightclub November, a police tective ttified Wednday. (AP) — A shooter seemed to be driven by bias agast the LGBTQ muny plottg an attack at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five and woundg 17 others, a judge acknowledged Thursday fdg that prosecutors showed enough evince for trial on murr and ha te crime charg. District Attorney Michael Allen told the judge that the evince showed that Aldrich had a "distaste for LGBTQ, " potg to an onle msage of a rifle spe over a gay pri para picture and e of gay slurs agast others and while onle gamg.

Hate crime laws are foced on the victims, not the hearg also revealed that Aldrich might be gay, somethg not prevly mentned by prosecutors or fense attorneys.

SHOOTER COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB ATTACK PLEADS GUILTY, GETS LIFE PRISON

Aldrich told one of the patrons who helped stop the attack, “My mom will not accept me bee I’m gay.

”Also released was a receipt that showed that on one of Aldrich’s viss to the club before the shootg, they bought two vodkas and “gayoli i” om bartenr Derrick Rump, who was among those sla. Onle gamg iends said the spect exprsed hatred for police, LGBTQ+ people and mori and ed anti-Black and anti-gay slurs. A tective ttified that they sent an onle msage wh a photo of a rifle spe traed on a gay pri para.

A police tective says the 22-year-old acced of rryg out the adly mass shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs November ran a neo-Nazi webse and ed gay and racial slurs while gamg onleExterr view of Club Q Wednday, Feb. (AP) — The 22-year-old acced of rryg out the adly mass shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs November ran a neo-Nazi webse and ed gay and racial slurs while gamg onle, a police tective ttified Wednday. Anrson Lee Aldrich also posted an image of a rifle spe traed on a gay pri para and ed a bigoted slur when referrg to someone who was gay, Detective Rebec Jo ttimony me at the start of a hearg that will terme if there’s enough evince to warrant that Aldrich face hate crime charg, addn to other charg cludg murr and attempted murr.

‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

— The spect last year’s mass shootg at a Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub, which killed five people and wound 17, is expected to strike a plea al to state murr and hate-crime charg that would ensure at least a life sentence, several survivors told the Associated Prs. 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.

June 26 (Rters) - A 23-year-old was sentenced to life prison whout the possibily of parole after pleadg guilty on Monday to killg five people a 2022 mass shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colorado.

GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG SPECT PLEADS GUILTY

"[1/3]Anrson Lee Aldrich listens as his victim Asht Gambl reads an impact statement after he plead guilty to murr and other crim a 2022 shootg that killed five people at the Club Q gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colorado, U. "The shootg at Club Q was remiscent of a massacre 2016 when a gunman killed 49 people at the gay Pulse nightclub Orlando, Florida, before he was shot ad by police. ”Wolf had sought refuge Florida 15 years ago when he was done wh ral Oregon, the childhood home where he suffered embedd racism and homophobia on a daily basis.

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

Among his motivatns for wrg the book was to reclaim tersectnaly om DeSantis and others on the right who seek to hijack explas: “I wanted to give a human flavour to what tersectnaly actually looks and feels like and what feels like to experience racism and homophobia at the same time. Growg up a nservative majory whe town was difficult bee the same kid who would ll me the N-word on one day would ll me a homophobic slur on another day and I was nstantly navigatg the tersectns of those two thgs.

Last month DeSantis’s mpaign released an anti-LGBTQ+ vio assailg Tmp for his past support of gay and transgenr ments: “It is a sry time to be not jt LGBTQ but LGBTQ and Black this state and ultimately that’s the tent. Photographs of victims of a mass shootg at a gay nightclub are on display at a memorial on November 23, 2022, Colorado Sprgs, Colorado.