DENVER — The man accused of opening fire in a Colorado Springs nightclub changed his name in 2016 to protect himself from his birth father and that man’s “criminal history,” according to court records obtained by The Denver Post.
Nicholas Franklin Brink asked a Bexar County, Texas, judge to change his name to Anderson Lee Aldrich more than six years ago, when he was 15, court records show. Aldrich was living in San Antonio at the time, records show, and his grandparents signed the petition authorizing the name change.
The family wrote that Aldrich wanted to change his name “to protect himself and his future from any connections to birth father (sic) and his criminal history. Father has had no contact with (Aldrich) for several years.”
