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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
National
Summer Lin and Grace Toohey

Fragments of a troubled young life emerge, but mysteries about Anderson Aldrich remain

In the months before Anderson Aldrich allegedly opened fire on a Colorado Springs, Colorado, LGBTQ nightclub, killing five and wounding 18 others, their mother posted in a Facebook group for women in the Church of the Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, asking for help for her child.

In February, she asked for recommendations for a “trauma/PTSD therapist,” writing in a comment that it was for a “21-year-old,” the same age as Aldrich at the time.

Nearly three months later, she asked whether anyone could refer her child to a private boxing coach, who she described as “6’6” tall and hits like a freight train.”

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