Colorado Springs suspect formally charged with 305 counts in Club Q shooting - 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 period has been formally charged with 305 counts, including charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder, battle and bias-motivated crimes.

Anderson Lee Aldrich, wearing a agleam yellowish situation jumpsuit, appeared successful tribunal successful idiosyncratic Tuesday, wherever Colorado’s Fourth Judicial District Attorney Michael Allen announced the charges.

Aldrich – whose attorneys accidental identifies arsenic nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns – allegedly entered Club Q precocious November 19 with an AR-style limb and a handgun and opened fire, killing 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.

Aldrich has been held up until present connected preliminary charges, including 5 counts of first-degree execution and 5 counts of a bias-motivated transgression – elsewhere called a hatred transgression – causing bodily injury, per the El Paso County Court’s online docket. In a proceeding connected November 23, a justice ordered Aldrich to beryllium held without bond.

The nationalist defender’s office, which is representing Aldrich, has antecedently declined each requests for comment, citing bureau policy.

Aldrich is adjacent owed successful tribunal connected February 22 for a preliminary hearing.