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Lawsuits Filed Over Preventable LGBTQ+ Nightclub Shooting Tragedy

Families and survivors seek accountability through legal action two years after a mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs.

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Survivors of LGBTQ+ club shooting say the deaths and trauma could've been avoided in lawsuits

Victims and family of those killed in the mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs in 2022 spoke Tuesday after filing lawsuits against the El Paso County commissioners and former sheriff

The Independent UK

Colorado victims sue over attack at LGBTQ+ nightclub that killed five

Suit accuses Club Q of lax security and says authorities’ ‘deliberate inaction’ enabled shooter to carry out attack

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Victims of 2022 mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ club sue county for not enforcing red flag laws

Victims and family of those killed in the mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs in 2022 filed lawsuits Sunday against the El Paso County commissioners and former sheriff

The Independent UK

Club Q shooter pleads guilty, receives 5 life sentences plus 2,208 years in prison

COLORADO SPRINGS — The attacker who killed five people in a mass shooting at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub last year was sentenced to five consecutive lifetimes in prison Monday.

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Club Q shooting suspect pleads guilty to murder, no contest to hate crime charges in 2022 attack

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A 23-year-old suspect pleaded guilty Monday to carrying out a mass shooting at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub last year that killed five people and injured 22 others.

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Judge upholds all charges — including hate-crime counts — against Club Q shooting suspect

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — An El Paso County judge on Thursday allowed all charges — including dozens of hate-crime counts — to move forward against the suspect in the mass shooting at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ club last year.

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Club Q shooting suspect had rainbow-colored gun target at home, court testimony reveals

DENVER — Colorado Springs police investigators found a rainbow-colored gun target inside the apartment of suspected Club Q shooter Anderson Aldrich and a rough sketch of the layout of the LGBTQ nightclub, court testimony revealed Wednesday.

The Denver Post

Club Q shooting: Entirety of deadly attack captured on surveillance video, prosecutor says

DENVER — Surveillance cameras inside and outside of Club Q captured the entirety of the mass shooting at the Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub, prosecutors said in court Friday.

The Denver Post

Leaked report about Colorado Springs shooter to be discussed

A judge is set to consider whether authorities should be punished after the media obtained documents showing detailed allegations about the suspect in the Colorado gay nightclub shooting previously plotting to be “the next mass killer” in an old case that was sealed at the time

The Independent UK

Prosecutor struggled with earlier bomb threat case against accused Colorado nightclub shooter

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Four days before Anderson Aldrich was scheduled to go to trial last year on charges of threatening to set off a bomb and become the “next mass killer,” a prosecutor handling the case could not provide key details to the presiding judge over why a key…

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A judge had warned that the Club Q mass shooting suspect posed a potential threat

A judge dismissed a kidnapping case against the Colorado gay nightclub shooter even though she had raised concerns about the defendant stockpiling weapons and explosives and planning a shootout.

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In 2021, judge warned of gay bar attacker's shootout plans

A judge who dismissed a 2021 kidnapping case against the Colorado gay nightclub shooter warned last year the defendant was planning a shootout and needed mental health treatment or ”it’s going to be so bad.”

The Independent UK

Details in 2021 case with Colorado shooter suggest missteps

Documents released in the 2021 dropped prosecution of the Colorado gay nightclub shooter paint a picture of potential missteps by prosecutors

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Judge unseals records of Anderson Aldrich's 2021 bomb threat

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — An El Paso County, Colorado, judge on Thursday unsealed a 2021 case involving Anderson Aldrich, who is accused of fatally shooting five people and injuring 17 at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs.

Tribune News Service

Hearing scheduled for Thursday to review 2021 sealed case of alleged Club Q shooter

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Attorneys on Thursday will gather in court to discuss several motions to unseal a 2021 case for Anderson Aldrich, the person prosecutors say was responsible for the shooting at the Club Q nightclub in Colorado Springs last month.

Tribune News Service

Accused Club Q shooter Anderson Aldrich will face more than 300 charges

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Anderson Aldrich, who is accused of fatally shooting five people and wounding more than a dozen others at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs, will face 305 charges including first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and bias-motivated crime, District Attorney Michael Allen said during the alleged Club Q…

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Accused Club Q shooter Anderson Aldrich will face more than 300 charges

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Anderson Aldrich will face 305 total charges, District Attorney Michael Allen said during the alleged Club Q shooter's first appearance on Tuesday morning.

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America's LGBTQ community says the massacre at Club Q in Colorado Springs was a disaster waiting to happen

Police allege a 22-year-old dressed in body armour burst into the nightclub with a rifle and a handgun. But local activists say the alleged assailant clearly misjudged their intended victims.

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Accused Club Q shooter changed name at 15; dad was MMA and porn star, mom had arrest record

Two weeks before his 16th birthday, the man accused of murdering five people in a Colorado nightclub changed his name to distance himself from his father and an extremely troubled childhood. On May 2, 2016, according to Texas court records, Nicholas Franklin Brink became Anderson Lee Aldrich.

Los Angeles Times

Fragments of a troubled young life emerge, but mysteries about Anderson Aldrich remain

New details have emerged in the case against Anderson Aldrich, the suspect in the deadly shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub, that have raised further questions about a potential motive in the attack that left five dead and 18 wounded in Colorado Springs, Colo.

The Independent UK

Outrage after Tucker Carlson guest says shootings will continue until ‘evil agenda’ of gender affirming care ends

‘If I say what needs to be said I’m gonna be banned’

The Independent UK

Witness: shooter at gay club showed 'no hesitation'

A witness to a shooting at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub says the suspect showed “no hesitation” when entering Club Q and opening fire

Los Angeles Times

Fragments of a troubled young life emerge, but mysteries about Anderson Aldrich remain

In the months before Anderson Aldrich allegedly opened fire on a Colorado Springs, Colorado, LGBTQ nightclub, killing five and wounding 18 others, their mother posted in a Facebook group for women in the Church of the Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, asking for help for her child.

Salon

Lawyers say Club Q suspect is nonbinary

"For the purposes of all formal filings," lawyers say, the suspect "will be addressed as Mx. Aldrich"

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