Club Q shooting suspect Anderson Aldrich appears in court, charged with 12 new counts - CNN

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The suspected gunman accused of sidesplitting 5 radical successful a wide shooting astatine an LGBTQ nightclub successful Colorado Springs, Colorado, past November is facing an further 12 counts, raising the full to 317.

Anderson Lee Aldrich appeared successful tribunal successful idiosyncratic Friday, wherever Colorado’s Fourth Judicial District Attorney Michael Allen announced the caller felony charges, including 4 attempted execution charges and 2 hatred crimes.

Aldrich, 22, was initially charged successful December with 305 counts, including charges of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, battle and bias-motivated crimes causing bodily injury.

The caller charges were added for 2 further victims contiguous astatine the nightclub during the shooting astatine Club Q, Allen told District Judge Michael McHenry.

Aldrich – whose attorneys accidental identifies arsenic nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns – faces up to beingness successful situation without parole if convicted connected the first-degree execution charges.

The fishy allegedly entered Club Q precocious November 19 with an AR-style limb and a handgun and opened fire, sidesplitting Daniel Aston, Raymond Green Vance, Kelly Loving, Ashley Paugh and Derrick Rump. At slightest 19 others were injured, constabulary person said, astir of whom suffered gunshot wounds.

The onslaught was halted by 2 patrons who took down and contained the fishy until constabulary arrived astatine the club, which was seen arsenic a harmless abstraction for the LGBTQ assemblage successful Colorado Springs.

Ahead of an earlier hearing, Aldrich’s attorneys said the fishy identified arsenic nonbinary and would beryllium addressed arsenic Mx. Aldrich – a favoritism Allen said would person “no impact” connected his office’s prosecution of the case.

A neighbour of the accused shooter who said helium sometimes played video games with Aldrich told CNN the fishy ne'er mentioned they were nonbinary.

Aldrich’s adjacent tribunal quality is simply a preliminary proceeding connected February 22.