Unsealed Court Records Show Why 2021 Charges Were Dropped Against Suspected Club Q Shooter
Court documents unsealed Thursday by a Colorado judge revealed that June 2021 charges against the suspected Club Q mass shooter relating to a bomb threat were dropped after his family members refused to cooperate with authorities or stand witness against him.
“The U.S. and Colorado constitutions require witnesses to stand in court in front of a jury subject to cross-examination and testify,” El Paso County District Attorney Michael Allen noted at a press conference Thursday.
Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, currently faces five murder charges and five charges of committing a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury as the suspected shooter in the Nov. 19 attack on Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs….