they had any further questions. the lawyers for the suspect said the suspect identified as non-binary, uses the pronouns they/them. in court, the judge did not use they/them pronouns and the da was asked, is this non-binary status will have any impact? he said no impact on the investigation. no impact on the prosecution. the suspect is the defendant. today, we just have the arrest warrant charges, five counts of first-degree murder, five bias crimes, that is what they hate crimes, formal charges are expected december 6th. that is under two weeks from now. i understand you spoke to the neighbor of the shooter. what have you learned? reporter: this was not just a neighbor, this was a friend. the two of them bonded over videogames and spent hours playing together. they lived across the hall from each other.
binary, uses the pronouns they/them. the judge in court did not use they them pronouns and afterwards, that the aid was asked, is this non-binary stat is gonna have any impact? he said, no, no impact on the investigation, no impact on the prosecution. this suspect is the defendant. today, we just had the arrest warrant charges, 5 counts of first degree murder, 5 bias crimes, that s what they call hate crimes here. formal charges are expected december 6, so that s just under 2 weeks from now. john? you also spoke, i understand, to the neighbor of the shooter. what have you learned? we did, john, and this is not just a neighbor, this is a friend. the 2 of them have bonded over video game, spent hours playing together. they lived across from each other. xavier crouch and suspect live with his mom across the whole way up until september.
forehead. the trauma of those survivors and everything that they re having to process right now. of course, jim, those families of the six victims obviously spending there holiday trying to come to terms with what it will mean to go on without them. the united states and the governor has sent condolences to those families. there are six people that can t go home. diane, thank you so much. in colorado springs, the suspect in the other shooting in the last several days at the club x finightclub, the suspects being held without bond. you could see him there slumped over with a bruised and battered face. he expected to be charged next month with first-degree murder as well as hate crime known as bias crimes known in colorado. and nick, i understand you spoke with someone who lived next door was w. with someone who was a friend of
on the transgender remembrance day to talk about people who had been killed. and so do those two factors, how much do they weigh on what prosecutors will be looking at here? well, that s a very good point, when you re talking about hate cries or bias crimes as in colorado, the prosecutors are going to be needing to look at a lot of circumstantial evidence to prove the motivations behind the act because it s one thing to have victims who were part of the marginalized group but to prove that was the reason behind the crime, that s what you re looking at. of course, the location of the crime, the day of the crime. any sort of past statements, any future statements made by the pittsburgh in this case are all going to play into whether they can prove that motivation. they don t have to prove that s the only motivating factor but something that can be shown primarily through circumstantial evidence. here, i don t think we ve heard a lot of statements to the