GUILTY CO - 5 Dead/18 Injured in Shooting at Club Q, Colorado Springs, Nov 2022 *arrest*

[ellabella]

I wonder why this individual was never formally charged. It sounds like it was a very serious event.

I wonder if they have a relative who was in law enforcement at the time.

Also: I understand we don't formally know the motive, but as a member of the community. Mass shooting at a drag show, on Transgender remembrance day? I know.

 

[MrsWatson]

I'm also very, very interested in that dropped case with sealed records.

Maybe a mental health diversion program? Is that a thing?

 

[MrsWatson]

Five dead and 25 injured in mass shooting inside gay club in Colorado

Five people were killed and 25 injured after a gunman opened fire inside Club Q, a gay nightclub, in Colorado Springs last night. Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, is now in protective custody.

www.dailymail.co.uk

The shooting comes one year after a 21-year-old man named Anderson Lee Aldrich was arrested for making a bomb threat in Colorado Springs.

Residents of the Lorson Ranch neighborhood reported to the sheriff's office at the time that Aldrich had a homemade bomb, multiple weapons and ammunition.

Nearly 10 homes were evacuated in the aftermath, KRDO reported at the time, but no bombs were found at the scene.

Authorities said at the time that he refused to comply with deputy's demands to surrender, and was booked into the El Paso County Jail facing two counts of felony menacing and three counts of first-degree kidnapping.

 

[nao]

Moo..the bomb threats etc were against the mother...so it was a domestic situation. So i will guess she did not want to file charges. There was a stand off but no actual physical harm was done. So maybe dealt with as a mental health situation. Moo

 

[jakat]

Five dead and 25 injured in mass shooting inside gay club in Colorado

Five people were killed and 25 injured after a gunman opened fire inside Club Q, a gay nightclub, in Colorado Springs last night. Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, is now in protective custody.

www.dailymail.co.uk

The shooting comes one year after a 21-year-old man named Anderson Lee Aldrich was arrested for making a bomb threat in Colorado Springs.

Residents of the Lorson Ranch neighborhood reported to the sheriff's office at the time that Aldrich had a homemade bomb, multiple weapons and ammunition.

Nearly 10 homes were evacuated in the aftermath, KRDO reported at the time, but no bombs were found at the scene.

Authorities said at the time that he refused to comply with deputy's demands to surrender, and was booked into the El Paso County Jail facing two counts of felony menacing and three counts of first-degree kidnapping.

Lorson Ranch is the community where the Stauch's lived when Letitia murdered Gannon.

JMO

 

[MrsWatson]

Lorson Ranch is the community where the Stauch's lived when Letitia murdered Gannon.

JMO

I knew that sounded familiar. Wow.

 

[TeaTime]

What is wrong with people? Why shoot people that have done nothing to you?

Live and let live.

 

[jakat]

I knew that sounded familiar. Wow.

Right?! I can't remember the name of the road they lived on and I'm too lazy to look it up.

 

[Lore Listener]

I'm also very, very interested in that dropped case with sealed records.

Maybe a mental health diversion program? Is that a thing?

My experience with the Colorado legal system (mostly regarding DV) is that they will often plea bargain a first offense (even if it's serious) for a year of probation. If probation is successfully completed, the conviction is sealed. If it involved his mother, which it sounds like it did, that makes it domestic.

 

[jakat]

Right?! I can't remember the name of the road they lived on and I'm too lazy to look it up.

I couldn't let this go so I looked it up.
6627 Mandan Drive
Lorson Ranch
Colorado Springs, CO

District Attorney visits house where Gannon Stauch was last seen | KRDO

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- The El Paso County Sheriff's Office hasn't announced any criminal investigation into the disappearance of 11-year-old Gannon Stauch, but District Attorney Dan May made a visit to the house in Lorson Ranch Wednesday where the child was last seen. Stauch has been...

krdo.com

 

[Shamrock1]

IIRC, Lorson Ranch was Gannon Stauch’s neighborhood.

 

[Lore Listener]

According to an excellent local newspaper, The Colorado Times Recorder, the DA "declined to charge" ALA with the bomb threat:
Michael Allen, the 4th Judicial District Attorney, who declined to charge Aldrich in 2021, expressed sympathy for the victims and their families. “This is a tragic day for our community, and we stand in solidarity with the victims and their family members as we make sense out of a senseless crime,” he said. “Every person, regardless of who they are, has the right to be secure from fear and physical harm. Actions taken to strike fear in specific communities will not be tolerated in our community. This is particularly true for communities that have been maligned, harassed and targeted by persons or groups to intimidate and cause harm to members of those communities.”

5 Dead Following CO Springs Shooting at LGBTQ Nightclub

Five people are dead and at least 18 are wounded following a mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department. Club Q is...

coloradotimesrecorder.com

 

[sds71]

Heavy has confirmed that Aldrich is the grandson of outgoing State Assemblymember Randy Voepel, the former mayor of Santee, California.

Anderson Lee Aldrich: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Anderson Lee Aldrich is the suspect accused of perpetrating a mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs on November 19, 2022, killing five and injuring 25.

heavy.com

 

[nao]

Heavy has confirmed that Aldrich is the grandson of outgoing State Assemblymember Randy Voepel, the former mayor of Santee, California.

Anderson Lee Aldrich: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Anderson Lee Aldrich is the suspect accused of perpetrating a mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs on November 19, 2022, killing five and injuring 25.

heavy.com

Moo...Oooh that might of been a reason his bomb threat was dealt with quietly...moo

 

[LunaInvidia]

I went to my first drag show there, as a baby queer. My friends perform there. Everyone I know is safe, but a friend of a friend was killed.

All I can do today is cry.

 

[Stunned]

I went to my first drag show there, as a baby queer. My friends perform there. Everyone I know is safe, but a friend of a friend was killed.

All I can do today is cry.

I see and hear you.

 

[Marysmith]

I went to my first drag show there, as a baby queer. My friends perform there. Everyone I know is safe, but a friend of a friend was killed.

All I can do today is cry.

I’m so sorry.

 

[Sandra Ade]

This is so heartbreaking. When is enough hate and mass shootings enough? How do we stop this?

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We stop this by making sure offenders with arms length rap sheets do not see the light of day. So many red flags for this guy, should have never been sat free free making bombs and targeting houses.

 

[Sandra Ade]

I wonder if they have a relative who was in law enforcement at the time.

Also: I understand we don't formally know the motive, but as a member of the community. Mass shooting at a drag show, on Transgender remembrance day? I know.

Or it could have started as road rage, lovers quarrel, they said hate crime too early IMO. Probably is knowing his rap sheet (home made bombs) but you never know.

 

[Sandra Ade]

I went to my first drag show there, as a baby queer. My friends perform there. Everyone I know is safe, but a friend of a friend was killed.

All I can do today is cry.

So sad to hear this, I went to my first show at a downtown club there years ago with gay male friends I worked with at HP and I was a straight single mom. This club is no longer there, it was on Colorado Ave headed to Old Colorado City from downtown. That was when COS was such a wonderful place to live sorry for the loss of your friend, hugs.