Fourth Judicial District Court Judge Michael McHenry rejected arguments from defense attorneys that there was not enough evidence to show the suspect was motivated by hate toward the LGBTQ communit…
, used a homophobic slur, and said his mother was non-binary and forced him to go to gay clubs.
“He had a particular disdain for the community he did go after and target,” Fourth Judicial District Attorney Michael Allen told the judge as the preliminary hearing continued Thursday. He noted that there were 53 bars within 2.5 miles of Club Q, but Club Q was the only LGBTQ nightclub.Investigators also testified Wednesday that Aldrich was an administrator of a website to which a neo-Nazi, white supremacist propaganda video was posted, confirming.
Aldrich was prepared to livestream the attack at Club Q, investigators testified. Aldrich taped a cellphone to a baseball hat and in the hours before the attack uploadedfrom that phone, Colorado Springs Detective Rebecca Joines testified. One clip was uploaded from Aldrich’s apartment at 9:28 p.m., and the other three from the Club Q parking lot at 10:05 p.m., 10:49 p.m. and 11:43 p.m. — the latter video coming just minutes before the attack.
Joines testified that she believed Aldrich was attempting to emulate the neo-Nazi video posted to their website, although Aldrich did not livestream the shooting and instead left the phone on the front passenger seat of their car, testimony revealed.The public defenders showed an image of Aldrich at Club Q in August 2021 in which Aldrich posed smiling with their mother, and said Aldrich visited the club six times in the 15 months before the attack without incident.
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