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Five dead and 18 injured after gunman opened fire inside gay club in Colorado Springs
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Five people were shot dead and 18 others injured during a mass shooting inside an LGBTQ nightclub, known as Club Q, in Colorado Springs on Saturday night. Update at 11:25 a.m. ET: Colorado Springs police say Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, entered Club Q just before midnight and fired an unknown amount of bullets from his long rifle before he was stopped by at least two 'heroic' patrons who tackled him to the ground. The gunman was located inside the club and is being treated at a local hospital. The Colorado Springs man was apparently arrested previously for making a homemade bomb. FBI agents are now assisting Colorado Springs police with the investigation. Colorado Springs police received initial reports of an active shooting at the club around 11.57pm last night. The first officers arrived on the scene within three minutes of the call, and Anderson was detained at 12.02am. Club Q describes itself online as an 'adult-oriented gay and lesbian nightclub hosting theme nights such as karaoke, drag shows & DJs.' The club was scheduled to celebrate Transgender Day of Remembrance on Sunday 'with a variety of gender identities and performance styles,' following an all-ages musical drag brunch that morning. After all that, the only question is whether this is a hate crime, spree crime on a convenient soft target, or a nutter. Authorities did not immediately release a photo of Aldrich. Heavy is working to verify pictures on a relative’s Facebook page. There were not any immediately apparent social media accounts for Aldrich.The facts Heavy has collected suggest a nutter: Online records show Aldrich with an apartment complex address in Colorado Springs. Online records indicate he lives with a 44-year-old woman who works as a support engineer. In 2021, a man named Anderson Lee Aldrich was accused of being involved in a bomb threat situation with weapons in the Lorson Ranch neighborhood of Colorado Springs, a press release says. According to the June 18, 2021, press release from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, the reporting party “said her son was threatening to cause harm to her with a homemade bomb, multiple weapons and ammunition. The reporting party was not in the home at the time when she made the call and was not sure where her son was.”
Posted by: Skidmark 2022-11-20 |
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