Without detailing them all, the prosecutor in charge of the case said that “many crime leaders motivated by prejudices” had been selected.
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The alleged author of the shooting which left five dead and 17 injured, on November 19 in an LGBT+ club in Colorado Springs, in the United States, was charged Tuesday, December 6, of 305 charges, including those murder and “crime motivated by prejudices”.
According to investigators, Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, entered Club Q just before midnight and opened fire while customers celebrated the birthday of a Drag Queen. Several then threw themselves on him to stop the shots. He was arrested for “crime motivated by hatred”, but the prosecution later said that this chief could not be selected for lack of evidence.
Recalling that that of murder was, anyway, liable to life prison, the heaviest sentence, prosecutor Michael Allen considered it important to demonstrate that this act was well motivated by hatred. Without detailing them all, he therefore clarified Tuesday that “many crime leaders motivated by prejudices” had been selected. The fact that the accused says he is non-binary “is part of the context” led to this decision, he continued. “We are not going to tolerate that acts are committed against community members on the basis of their sexual identity, added the prosecutor. The members of this community have been harassed, intimidated and assaulted.”
More than a year before the shooting, Anderson Lee Aldrich had been arrested for a bomb alert which led to the evacuation of a dozen dwellings, according to the police. The young adult, who was in possession of an artisanal explosive device and several weapons, would then have threatened to kill his parents if they sought to prevent him from becoming “the new serial killer”. The case has apparently been classified without follow-up.