CHILLING photos show Colorado gay club shooter Anderson Lee Aldrich moments before they killed 5 people

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Aldrich was previously arrested in June 2021 on allegations of making a bomb threat, according to other documents released by the judge. The incident led to the evacuation of about 10 homes. According to the documents, Aldrich boasted of having bomb-making materials, ammunition, and multiple weapons and threatened to harm family members. 

Over the summer, Aldrich's statements in the case were dropped but it has raised questions about why authorities failed to seize the suspect's guns under Colorado's "red flag" law.

Judge Robin Chittum said the "profound" public interest in the case outweighed Aldrich's privacy rights. The judge added that scrutiny of judicial cases is "foundational to our system of government". "The only way for that scrutiny to occur is for this to be unsealed," she said, according to Daily Mail. 

Although Aldrich was booked into jail on suspicion of felony menacing and kidnapping, the case was later dropped. After news organizations sought to unseal the records, the judge ordered to release of the documents. The papers detail how Aldrich told their frightened grandparents about firearms and bomb-making material they kept in their basement and vowed not to let them interfere with Aldrich's plans to be "the next mass killer" and "go out in a blaze."

Aldrich then pointed a Glock handgun at their grandparents as the old couple begged for their lives and said, "You guys die today... I´m loaded and ready."

The grandparents called 911 after they fled for their lives. They alarmed the authorities about the fear of a possible bomb blast which prompted the evacuation of nearby homes.

Aldrich was then in a standoff with SWAT teams, and threatened them that they had armor-piercing rounds and a determination to "go to the end." Aldrich eventually came out barefoot with their hands raised and surrendered.