Editors Note: The following press release is directly from ATF. Regular readers of AmmoLand News know our stance on the unaccountable Federal Agency: No comment. We invite our readers to leave their hard-hitting insights in the comments below.
DENVER — A Colorado resident was charged today by an information with hate crimes and firearms charges related to the mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQI+ establishment in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Nov. 19, 2022.
The information charges that Anderson Lee Aldrich, 23, formerly of Colorado Springs, [who identifies as nonbinary] murdered 5 people, injured 19, and attempted to murder 28 more in a willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated attack at Club Q. According to the information, Aldrich entered Club Q armed with a loaded assault weapon and began firing. Aldrich continued firing until Aldrich was subdued by patrons of the club.
The information also alleges that Aldrich committed this attack because of the actual or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity of any person.
Aldrich filed a notice of disposition and requested that the court schedule a change of plea hearing. In consultation with the victims of this incident, the parties jointly filed a motion requesting that the court schedule the change of plea and sentencing hearings on the same date. The parties further informed the court that there is a plea agreement in this matter, and it is anticipated that the defendant has agreed to plead guilty to all charges in the information. The time for the entry of the guilty plea has not yet been set.
U.S. Attorney Cole Finegan for the District of Colorado, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and Special Agent in Charge Mark D. Michalek of the FBI Denver Field Office made the announcement.
The FBI Denver Field Office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigated the case.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Alison Connaughty and Bryan Fields for the District of Colorado and Trial Attorney Maura White of the Civil Rights Division are prosecuting the case.
An information is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
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Denver Field Division
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives
ATF is the federal law enforcement agency responsible for investigating violations of the federal firearms and explosives laws and regulations. More information about ATF and its programs can be found at www.atf.gov.
The federal government has no definition for an “assault weapon” and as such the ATF, FBI, DoJ, and every other federal agency should refrain from using this made up and prejudicial term.
Lately there have been at least two trans mass shooters, will they be considered hate criminals?
Based on legitimate whistleblower information, and several sources at that, one must consider whether the FBI agents who investigated the ‘hate crimes’ were the same federal agents who groomed the always troubled, always impressionable and always drugged and under psychiatric care by certain psychiatrists with traceable connections to Langley shooter (the totalitarian goal is to so incense the public about guns that they will clamour for guns to be outlawed.) Very few of the mass shootings are organic. When you consider that ‘voice to skull’ technology has been available since the 70’s (look it up, but not on Google for… Read more »
Two useless agencies.
Wonder what stunt these liberals pulled to make somebody come hunting them like that?
Who wrote this AI nonsense regarding “an information”? See above: “… was charged today by an information” and “…An information is merely and allegation…”.
No comprende baby – speak in English not AI.
Remember the psychotropic medication commercials all over TV for years that warned of side-effects like “homicidal or suicidal thoughts”? Do thoughts lead to actions? Most certainly, these gender-confused persons committing these heinous acts have been led down the psychotropic path by the neutering industry “doctors” who have been rendered believable by that very same industry! Better living through chemistry, or the neutering of a confused generation?