Five dead in Colorado night club shooting; 22 y.o. fingered in 600th Mass Shooting in the US

By Dana Malcolm

Staff Writer

#USA, November 2022 – On day 323 the United States experienced its 600th mass shooting of the year when a 22 year old marched to an LGBTQ+ night club in Colorado and opened fire on the innocent crowd.

The man killed 5 and wounded 25 more patrons  of Club Q in Colorado Springs before two heroes as they are being described by law enforcement ‘confronted and fought with the suspect’ to stop the rampage.

Police say they began receiving calls around 11:56 pm within six minutes the murderer was apprehended. As for how it happened Adrian Vasquez, Police Chief said this: “The suspect entered Club Q and immediately began shooting at people inside as he moved further into the club.” He said “I can confirm that the suspects used a long rifle in the shooting.”

Describing Club Q as a safe haven for the LGBTQ community police said in a conference they are investigating whether the incident was a hate crime. But as residents tuned in to the broadcast over Facebook some of them recognized the name of the murderer.

Comments included “Is Anderson Lee Aldrich the same guy arrested last year in El Paso County for a bomb threat?”

While police did not confirm that the two were one and the same, KOAA news, a local station reported last year that a “21-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich” was reported by his mother whom he had threatened to  harm with a bomb and other weapons.

Ten homes had to be evacuated before police could get him to surrender.

That case was dropped.

None of the victims of the mass shooting have yet been named.