Federal hate crimes charges filed against Club Q shooter
Assistant United States Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced Tuesday federal hate crimes and firearms charges were made against the shooter related to the mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Nov.
19, 2022. Anderson Lee Aldrich, 23, is currently housed in a Wyoming prison after pleading guilty to Colorado’s state-level charges in the Club Q shooting, which garnered him a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Aldrich was moved to the Wyoming State Penitentiary last year according to the Colorado Department of Corrections due to concerns about threats to Aldrich’s safety in Colorado’s prison facilities.
In this latest legal development, the Justice Department entered 50 hate crimes charges and 24 weapons charges — Aldrich used a semiautomatic rifle in the attack.
