Video footage from a home security camera, provided to CNN by a relative of the shooter’s mother, shows Anderson Lee Aldrich surrendering to police after his mother reported he had threatened her by saying he had a bomb in June 2021.
Charges in that case were apparently dropped, and the records sealed, CNN reports. While police have yet to publicly comment on the motive for the shooting Saturday night at the Colorado Springs LGBTQ bar Club Q, a report in the U.S.
edition of the U.K. newspaper Independent, along with other news outlets, says that the shooter, 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldritch, is the grandson of a Republican member of the California State Assembly.
Anderson, who was confronted and disarmed by at least two patrons shortly after opening fire inside the club Saturday night, remained hospitalized today (Monday, Nov.