Police: 5 dead, 18 hurt in Colorado gay nightclub shooting
https://apnews.com/article/shootings-colorado-springs-e098d88261db6bcfc0774434abbb7a8f
Police identified the gunman as Anderson Lee Aldrich, who was in custody and being treated for injuries. A man with the same name and age was arrested in 2021 after his mother reported he threatened her with “a homemade bomb, multiple weapons and ammunition,” according to authorities.
Aldrich is the grandson of outgoing Republican state Rep. Randy Voepel, the former mayor of Santee, California. There were calls to expel Voepel from the state Assembly after he made comments comparing the January 6 attacks to the Revolutionary War. Aldrich’s mother, Laura Voepel, has written posts praising Randy Voepel on Facebook and confirming he is her father.
“This is Lexington and Concord. First shots fired against tyranny,” Randy Voepel, who was defeated in a Republican primary in August 2022, said in a San Diego Union-Tribune article three days after January 6. “Tyranny will follow in the aftermath of the Biden swear-in on January 20th.” According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, Voepel “later tweeted that he condemned violence and lawlessness.”
Facebook posts made by his mother reveal he had been dealing with mental health issues. She posted often about her son in a Facebook group for women involved in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Colorado Springs area.
“A drag dancer stomped on the gunman with her high heels”
This, right here, would make a great statue.
The 22-year-old suspect who allegedly entered an LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs and killed five and injured 25 is being charged with 10 counts including five counts of bias-motivated crimes.
https://www.fox21news.com/club-q-shooting/club-q-shooting-suspect-being-charged-with-hate-crime/
Accused Colorado gunman Anderson Aldrich’s mom had run-ins with law
Laura Voepel, the mother of accused Colorado Springs mass shooter Anderson Lee Aldrich, has three outstanding warrants for her arrest in California.
https://nypost.com/2022/11/22/accused-colorado-gunmans-mom-had-several-run-ins-with-law/
Everyone is focusing on the grandfather, but the mother is also interesting.
CBS interviewed his best friend who only remembers one homophobic slur and talked about the shooter's drug addiction and love of gaming.
His path to radicalization wasn't subtle.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/21/colorado-springs-qbar-shooter/
He livestreamed his 2021 armed standoff with police.
The criminal charges were dropped and no Red Flag Law was applied.
There needs to be accountability for this crap.
According to the public defenders, the shooter self-identifies as non-binary.
The shooter's father doesn't care that his son is a mass murderer just so long as his son isn't gay.
The homophobic father is a former MMA fighter turned porn star.
Earlier arrest report. He threatened to kill his grandparents, commit mass murder, and said he was building a sizable bomb.
Only KKTV 11 News obtains arrest papers likely tied to Club Q shooting suspect for alleged bomb threat https://www.kktv.com/2022/11/23/kktv-obtains-old-arrest-papers-likely-tied-club-q-shooting-suspect-alleged-bomb-threat/
Why does Colorado even have a red flag law on the books?
More on the shooter's father. Arrested for drug smuggling when he was a young adult, and for burglary and illegal possession of a firearm six years ago, right around the time the shooter legally changed his name.
@jjmacnab It sounded like they were pretty sure this was the same guy, which means we have a gap somewhere between "you can't lock people up for what they haven't done" and "waiting until a bunch of people die". 🙁
Correction: No charges have yet been filed. He is being *held on suspicion of* 10 counts... Because they cannot hold him without cause and they absolutely positively do not want him out of custody.
@jjmacnab Someone posted her FB groups and follows and there was a whole lot of guns and ammo there.
Red flags around the whole clan.
@jjmacnab I wonder if this was a subject of his mom's discussions with the mormon mom group?
@jjmacnab Ugh. This is an inevitable evolution of the practice of identifying mass murderers as autistic in order to both excuse the criminal (who can't help it because mental illness) and paint autistic people as dangerous criminals. It's all done while the perpetrators decry "identity politics." Disingenuous and abusive.
@Teach4Democracy @jjmacnab Yes, I know. I was talking about people labeling it as such and using it as an excuse for everything from incel-style stalking to outright murder. #ActuallyAutistic
@jjmacnab Based on the extended family as a whole this all just seems inevitable
Is he tweaking?
@jjmacnab The father should be charged with aiding and abetting. Also, drug possession. He sure sounds like he’s on something.
@jjmacnab he was also in an episode of 'intervention', season 6 episode 8, meth addict. did 3yrs in federal prison for smuggling weed from Mexico when he was 21
@jjmacnab I’m so glad it was a Second Amendment Sanctuary zone. He was in real danger of losing access to weapons of mass murder. </sarcasm>
@jjmacnab To give "constitutional" sheriffs laws they can decide not to uphold?
Because more or less arbitrary defiance of the written law seems to be the primary reason for the existence of the constitutional sheriff movement.
@jjmacnab I think like here, it depends on the sheriff. Some sheriff's just refuse to enforce it.
@jjmacnab I read this is not true, he's not non-binary. The defenders and media are just throwing ideas out without verifying them. Also, the person stomping on him at the club was supposedly not a Drag Queen, but a trans person. That info was given by a Drag Queen who was in the club who said the person who took down the shooter didn't know this. It appears MSM is spewing falsehoods without waiting for verification, and trying to create controversy.
@jjmacnab Clear evidence that Police do not prevent crime. If they cant protect us from a man with so, so many red flags, then why do we spend billions on them?
@jjmacnab I’d donate
@jjmacnab I would donate so hard to that.
@jjmacnab there would definitely be opposing interpretations of that, one showing the heroism of taking on a terrorist gunman unarmed, and another claiming that the drag queen is "oppressing" the 2A, that's how Garrison would draw it
@jjmacnab - Wow, I just helped vote his insurrection-friendly grandfather out of office a few weeks ago. The apple didn't fall far from this family tree.
@jjmacnab thanks for the great info. There are so often obvious red flags.
@jjmacnab
What a surprise, to learn that a #MassShooter has a history of #DomesticViolence...
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Anderson Lee Aldrich: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know https://heavy.com/news/anderson-lee-aldrich/