Club Q shooter charged with 50 federal hate crimes
Club Q shooter Anderson Lee Aldrich, 23, has been charged with more than 50 counts of federal hate crimes after a mass shooting in Colorado Springs on 9 November 2022 that killed five people and wounded more than a dozen.
Content warning: This story includes topics that could make some readers feel uncomfortable and/or upset. On Tuesday 16 January, the US attorney’s office in Colorado announced the shooter had been “charged today by an information with hate crimes and firearms charges related to the mass shooting” at the LGBTQIA+ nightspot.
Charges included five counts of killing with a firearm alongside a further 24 counts of using a firearm to commit a crime, according to the Washington Post.
Aldrich “murdered five people, injured 19 and attempted to murder 28 more in a willful, deliberate, malicious and premeditated attack” the release states.
