CHILLING photos show Colorado gay club shooter Anderson Lee Aldrich moments before they killed 5 people
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO: Chilling surveillance photos showed the Colorado gay club shooter just moments before they claimed the lives of five people and injured 25. In the pictures, Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, who is non-binary and uses they/them to identify themself, were seen leaving their car with an AR-15 assault rifle in the Club Q parking lot at 11.55 pm on November 19, 2022.
According to the Daily Mail, an El Paso County judge released the photos, along with previously sealed documents related to Aldrich's 2021 bomb threat charges, which were dropped after their family refused to cooperate. Aldrich can be seen with the gun raised as they prepare to enter the club in the black and white photos, just minutes before they shot two people. They then continued the shooting rampage inside the club until they were tackled by two patrons to the floor at 12:02 am. Club Q owner Matthew Haynes released the footage from the parking lot to investigators. The original videos captured in Haynes' surveillance footage contain audio. Although the footage of inside the club was also taken, it has not been released yet.