Colorado Club Shooting Suspect’s Mother Is Also ‘Nonbinary,’ Forced Him To Go To Gay Clubs Several Times: Detective

COLORADO – During a hearing on Wednesday, a police detective testified that Anderson Lee Aldrich, the 22-year-old accused of carrying out a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs in November, ran a neo-Nazi website and used homophobic and racist language while gaming online.

The detective also revealed that Aldrich posted an image of a rifle scope aimed at a gay pride parade and used a homophobic slur. The prosecution is seeking to add hate crime charges to the existing murder and attempted murder charges.

The detective further testified that Aldrich, who identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, administered a website that included a “neo-Nazi white supremacist” shooting training video glorifying mass shootings. The video featured attacks on synagogues and mosques in Europe and the 2019 Christchurch shooting, which the detective believes Aldrich was attempting to emulate in the Colorado Springs shooting.