The owner of Club Q in Colorado Springs said he experienced both an outpouring of support and an avalanche of hate in the wake of the mass shooting that left five dead and dozens of others wounded, and lamented that he’s had to make the bar practically “bulletproof” ahead of its re-opening.
Anderson Lee Aldrich, who attacked the LGBT+ nightclub on 19 November, entered a guilty plea in an El Paso County courtroom on Monday. The plea was part of an agreement reducing the number of charges against them from 305 to 53.
