Club Q shooter sentenced to life without possibility of parole
In a press conference Monday after the final court hearing, El Paso County (Colo.) District Attorney Michael J. Allen announced that a plea deal had been reached with the shooter in last November’s mass shooting at the LGBTQ entertainment venue Club Q.
Colorado Fourth Judicial District Court Judge Michael McHenry accepted the plea deal worked out with Allen’s office where Anderson Lee Aldrich, 23, pleaded guilty to five counts of murder in the first degree, 46 counts of attempted murder in the first degree.
McHenry said that Aldrich will receive five consecutive life sentences without the possibility for parole on the murder charges, and will also receive 46 consecutive 48-year sentences for the attempted murder counts, which totals 2,208 years, followed by mandatory periods of parole.
This is a final decision — a trial can not happen at a later date. Prior to sentencing, the first victim impact statements came from the loved ones of the five murdered victims: Daniel Aston Kelly Loving Derrick Rump Ashley Paugh Raymond Vance Which was followed by the statements on behalf of the other victims, survivors and families of survivors.
