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Club Q Shooter Gets 55 Life Sentences For Federal Hate Crimes

Anderson Lee Aldrich, 24, has been sentenced to 55 concurrent life sentences to run consecutive to 190 years in prison after pleading guilty to 74 hate crimes and firearms charges related to the deadly mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ bar in Colorado Springs. Continue reading “Club Q Shooter Gets 55 Life Sentences For Federal Hate Crimes”

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Club Q Shooter Pleads Guilty To First Degree Murder Charges

Club Q in Colorado Springs (screen capture)
The shooter accused of killing five people at Club Q in Colorado Springs has pleaded guilty to five counts of first degree murder, ensuring a life sentence in prison. Continue reading “Club Q Shooter Pleads Guilty To First Degree Murder Charges”

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Club Q Shooter Blames Attack On Steroid Use

Anderson Lee Aldrich (mugshot via Colorado Springs Police Dept)
Anderson Lee Aldrich, the suspect in the deadly Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs, has issued their first public statements through a series of phone calls with the Associated Press. In their interviews with the AP, Aldrich blamed steroid use for fueling the violent attack on the gay nightclub. Continue reading “Club Q Shooter Blames Attack On Steroid Use”

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Club Q Shooter Charged On 305 Counts Including 1st Degree Murder

Anderson Lee Aldrich (mugshot via Colorado Springs Police Dept)
Anderson Lee Aldrich, the 22-year-old accused of killing five and injuring more than 17 others at the deadly mass shooting at Club Q nightclub in Colorado Springs last month, was formally charged today. Aldrich faces 305 counts including multiple charges of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, assault and hate crimes. Continue reading “Club Q Shooter Charged On 305 Counts Including 1st Degree Murder”

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Slovakia Gay Bar Terrorist Inspired By Buffalo Shooter + More News

Juraj Krajcik (via Twitter)
Some news items of interest: • The Advocate: Police in Slovakia have recategorized the deadly shooting at a gay bar in Bratislava that left two dead as a terrorist attack. Investigators say the killer cited the Buffalo supermarket shooter as his inspiration for committing terrorist acts. Continue reading “Slovakia Gay Bar Terrorist Inspired By Buffalo Shooter + More News”

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Pride Events Cancelled After Mass Shooting At Oslo Gay Bar

A lone gunman opened fire on people at the London Pub, a popular gay bar in Oslo, Norway, just hours before the country's first in-person Pride parade in years.
(screen capture via CBS Mornings)
Norway’s first Pride festival in years has been cut short after an early-morning mass shooting left two people dead and at least 10 others seriously wounded outside a popular gay club in downtown Oslo. Police are reportedly viewing the attack as an act of terrorism. Continue reading “Pride Events Cancelled After Mass Shooting At Oslo Gay Bar”

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TX Official: Police Response To Uvalde Shooting ‘An Abject Failure’

Uvalde Elementary School - Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said at a state Senate hearing today that the response by law enforcement officials to the Uvalde elementary school mass shooting was "an abject failure."
Uvalde Elementary School (screen capture via WFAA)
Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, told state lawmakers that the response by law enforcement officials to the Uvalde elementary school mass shooting was “an abject failure and antithetical to everything we’ve learned over the last two decades since the Columbine massacre.” Continue reading “TX Official: Police Response To Uvalde Shooting ‘An Abject Failure’”