Club Q Shooter Pleads Guilty To 50 Hate Crime Charges

The New York Times reports:

The shooter convicted of killing five people at a Colorado Springs L.G.B.T.Q. nightclub in 2022 pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal hate crime and firearm violations. Under the agreement, federal prosecutors did not seek the death penalty for Anderson Lee Aldrich, 24, who is nonbinary and uses the pronouns they/them.

The Justice Department had announced a plea agreement with Mx. Aldrich in January, which included life in prison without the possibility of parole plus a consecutive sentence of 190 years in prison.

As victims of the shooting and people who lost loved ones began to testify, some of them asked Judge Sweeney to consider the death penalty. “You need to pay with your life,” said Cheryl Norton, whose daughter Ashtin Gamblin was wounded in the shooting, speaking to Mx. Aldrich.

Read the full article. I’m not crazy about the Times parroting his nonbinary claim, which was an obvious dodge to avoid the hate crime charges he just pleaded guilty to. Aldrich’s own best friend professed no knowledge of his claim to be nonbinary and Aldrich was known to spew anti-LGBTQ slurs during online gaming.

The shooter who killed five people and injured 19 others at a nightclub in Colorado Springs has pleaded guilty to 50 federal hate crimes.
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