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Kelly McClure

Club Q suspect's dad "glad he's not gay"

Evidence markers are placed at the scene near a 7-11 where a victim was found near Club Q on November 20, 2022 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

When Aaron Brink learned that his 22-year-old offspring, Anderson Lee Aldrich, was the main suspect in a shooting that claimed the lives of five people and wounded at least 18 others at a gay bar called Club Q in Colorado Springs, his main concern was whether or not his child was gay.

In an interview with CBS, Brink described the moment he learned of the shooting saying "There was a shooting involving multiple people, and then I find it was a gay bar and I was like oh my god, is he gay? And he's not gay so . . ."

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