What we know about the suspect in the Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub shooting - CNN

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The fishy successful a shooting astatine a Colorado LGBTQ nightclub this play has been identified arsenic 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich, who constabulary accidental walked into Club Q successful Colorado Springs and immediately opened fire, sidesplitting 5 radical and injuring 25 others.

Investigators person yet to find a motive, Police Chief Adrian Vasquez said Sunday, though they are considering whether the onslaught was a hatred crime. Aldrich has yet to beryllium formally charged.

Here’s what we cognize astir the suspected gunman.

Police received respective 911 calls astir the shooting opening astatine 11:56 p.m., according to police. Officers were dispatched astatine 11:57 p.m. and an serviceman arrived astatine Club Q astatine midnight. The fishy was detained astatine 12:02 a.m., constabulary said.

The shooting lasted lone minutes due to the fact that radical wrong the nine were capable to subdue the suspect, constabulary said.

“At slightest 2 heroic radical wrong the nine confronted and fought with the fishy and were capable to halt the suspect,” Vasquez said. “We beryllium them a large indebtedness of thanks.”

Matthew Haynes, 1 of the club’s owners, told The New York Times 1 of the customers “took down the gunman and was assisted by another.”

“He saved dozens and dozens of lives,” Haynes said of the archetypal patron. “Stopped the antheral cold. Everyone other was moving away, and helium ran toward him.”

The fishy was taken into constabulary custody and was being treated astatine a infirmary Sunday, constabulary said, adding officers did not sprout astatine the suspect.

A agelong firearm was utilized successful the shooting, according to the constabulary chief. Two firearms were recovered astatine the scene.

The gunman appeared heavy equipped and wearing a military-style flak overgarment arsenic helium arrived astatine the club, the club’s owners told the Times, citing their reappraisal of surveillance footage.

Haynes said the gunman entered with “tremendous firepower,” the Times reported.

Police said Sunday they are investigating the suspect’s history, though they declined to stock details.

Aldrich was arrested successful June 2021 successful transportation with a weaponry menace which led to a standoff astatine his mother’s home, according to a quality release from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office astatine the clip and his mother’s erstwhile landlord. Colorado Springs is successful El Paso County.

Two instrumentality enforcement sources confirmed the fishy successful Saturday’s shooting and the weaponry menace were the aforesaid idiosyncratic based connected his sanction and day of birth.

Video obtained by CNN shows Aldrich surrendering to instrumentality enforcement past twelvemonth aft allegedly making a weaponry threat. Footage from the Ring doorway camera of the proprietor of the location shows Aldrich exiting the location with his hands up and barefoot, and walking to sheriff’s deputies.

Sheriff’s deputies responded to a study by the man’s parent helium was “threatening to origin harm to her with a homemade bomb, aggregate weapons, and ammunition,” according to the release. Deputies called the suspect, and helium “refused to comply with orders to surrender,” the merchandise said, starring them to evacuate adjacent homes.

Several hours aft the archetypal constabulary call, the sheriff’s situation negotiations portion was capable to get Aldrich to permission the house, and helium was arrested aft walking retired the beforehand door. Authorities did not find immoderate explosives successful the home.

Leslie Bowman, who owns the location wherever Aldrich’s parent lived, provided CNN the videos. Bowman said Aldrich’s parent rented a country successful the location for a small implicit a twelvemonth and Aldrich would travel sojourn his parent there.

Attempts by CNN to scope Aldrich’s parent for remark were unsuccessful.

It is not instantly wide however the weaponry menace lawsuit was resolved, but the Colorado Springs Gazette reported the territory attorney’s bureau said nary ceremonial charges were pursued successful the case. The territory attorney’s bureau did not respond to a petition for remark from CNN.

Aldrich besides called the Gazette successful an effort to get an earlier communicative astir the 2021 incidental removed from the website, the paper reported. “There is perfectly thing there, the lawsuit was dropped, and I’m asking you either region oregon update the story,” Aldrich said successful a dependable message, according to the Gazette.