The suspect in the deadly shooting at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub was from San Antonio.
Mourners stand along the makeshift memorial to the victims of a weekend mass shooting at a nearby gay nightclub on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Anderson Lee Aldrich opened fire at Club Q, in which five people were killed and others suffered gunshot wounds before patrons tackled and beat the suspect into submission. The 22-year-old accused of killing five people in a Colorado Springs LGBTQ bar this weekend spent most of his life in San Antonio, public records show.
The man now known as Anderson Lee Aldrich was raised in San Antonio as Nicholas Brink until he was 15 years old, the Washington Post reported. For unknown reasons, in April 2016, just before his 16th birthday, he petitioned a Texas court to change his name from Nicholas F. Brink to Anderson L. Aldrich.
On Sunday, Aldrich walked into Club Q, a popular LGBTQ bar in Colorado Springs, and opened fire into the crowded club, authorities said. The bar, which was celebrating National Transgender Day of Remembrance, was packed with people.Husband of teacher killed in Uvalde shooting has resigned from Uvalde school police
Aldrich allegedly killed five and injured another 18 before he was tackled and subdued by a Club Q patron until police arrived and arrested Aldrich. The suspected shooter was hospitalized, and his condition remains unknown. The suspected shooter was born in 2000 in Orange, Calif., a year before his parents divorced. Aldrich went to San Antonio to live with his mother, Laura Voepel. Voepel has multiple Bexar County addresses listed, including residences on TPC Parkway, Hideout Falls, Stone Oak Parkway and Thousand Oaks Drive, according to public records.
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