As bullets tore through a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, killing five people and wounding many more, one patron who’d been partying moments before rushed into action, grabbing a handgun from the suspect, hitting him with it and pinning him down until police arrived just minutes later.
According to online court records obtained Monday, 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich is facing five murder charges and five charges of committing a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury.
The man suspected of opening fire at an LGBTQ2S+ nightclub in Colorado Springs was being held on murder and hate crime charges Monday, while hundreds of people gathered to honour the five people killed and 17 wounded in the attack on a venue that for decades was a sanctuary for the local LGBTQ2S+ community.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — As bullets tore through a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, killing five people and wounding many more, one patron who’d been partying moments before rushed into action, grabbing a handgun from the suspect, hitting him with it and pinning him down until police arrived just minutes
According to online court records obtained Monday, 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich is facing five murder charges and five charges of committing a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury.