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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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MacKenzie Ryan

Will the Colorado gay club shooting be prosecuted as a hate crime?

A memorial site for victims of the mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs.
A memorial site for victims of the mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs. Photograph: Isaiah Downing/Reuters

Colorado’s LGBTQ+ communities are waiting with fearful and angry anticipation as evidence against the suspected Club Q shooter accused of killing five people and wounding 17 more is being gathered by local police and reviewed by prosecutors.

Online court records show Anderson Aldrich, who has identified in legal papers as nonbinary, is facing five murder charges and five charges of committing a bias-motivated crime, as investigations into the circumstances of the shooting – and what motivated it – continue.

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