Colorado Springs nightclub shooting suspect makes first court appearance via video

Colorado Springs nightclub shooting suspect appeared for the first time in court by video appearance from jail. He was seen in a wheel chair, with facial injuries. Customers at Club Q had beaten the suspect into submission to hand him over to the police on Tuesday. His name given at the time of arrest was Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22. Charges framed by the officers at the time of arrest were murder and hate crimes.

It has been revealed to attorneys that the suspected killer is non-binary and uses them or their for pronouns. A name change was requested by the killer's grandparents, as the name of Nicholas Franklin Brink knew him till 2016. His father was in jail for assault on his mother, and he didn't want anything to do with his father. Hence the suspect applied for a name change. The shooter's father was a martial arts champion and a porn film actor. The police once arrested the shooter for threatening to bomb his mother. The father was arrested for beating his mother.




The suspect was bullied in school, and a social media handle called "Asian Homosexual gets Molested" was opened to invite hate quotes from classmates.

Aldrich had just carried a gun into the club and started to fire indiscriminately at the crowd. The police credited two people at that time in the club for confronting the shooter and stopping the mayhem. Authorities feel that Colorado Springs Police could have seized weapons he was carrying at home. It was a surprise that they didn't confiscate his weapons since his mother had informed the police earlier.

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