Tyrice Kelley, center right, a performer at Club Q, is comforted during a service held at All Souls Unitarian Church following an overnight fatal shooting at the gay nightclub, in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022. (
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The man suspected of killing five people and injuring others at a gay bar in Colorado Springs is facing murder and hate crime charges, according to online court records obtained Monday.
Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, faces five murder charges and five charges of committing a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury, the records show.
A law enforcement official said the suspect used an AR-15-style semiautomatic weapon in Saturday night’s attack, but a handgun and additional ammunition magazines also were recovered. The official could not discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Information on a lawyer who could speak on Aldrich’s behalf wasn’t immediately available Monday.
Club Q on its Facebook page thanked the “quick reactions of heroic customers that subdued the gunman and ended this hate attack.”
(from left) Ren Kurgis and Jessie Pacheco pay their respects to the victims of the mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub, in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Sunday.
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Already questions were being raised about why authorities didn’t seek to take Aldrich’s guns away from him in 2021, when he was arrested after his mother reported he threatened her with a homemade bomb and other weapons.
Though authorities at the time said no explosives were found, gun control advocates are asking why police didn’t try to trigger Colorado’s “red flag” law, which would have allowed authorities to seize the weapons his mother says he had. There’s also no public record prosecutors ever moved forward with felony kidnapping and menacing charges against Aldrich.
Mayor John Suthers said on NBC’s “Today” that the district attorney would file motions in court Monday to allow law enforcement to talk more about any criminal history “that this individual might have had.”
Of the 25 injured at Club Q, at least seven were in critical condition, authorities said. Some were hurt trying to flee, and it was unclear if all of them were shot, a police spokesperson said. Suthers told The Associated Press there was “reason to hope” all of those hospitalized would recover.
The shooting rekindled memories of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. Colorado has experienced several mass killings, including at Columbine High School in 1999, a movie theater in suburban Denver in 2012 and at a Boulder supermarket last year.
It was the sixth mass killing this month and came in a year when the nation was shaken by the deaths of 21 in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Authorities were called to Club Q at 11:57 p.m. Saturday with a report of a shooting, and the first officer arrived at midnight.
Joshua Thurman said he was in the club with about two dozen other people and was dancing when the shots began. He initially thought it was part of the music, until he heard another shot and said he saw the flash of a gun muzzle.
Thurman, 34, said he ran with another person to a dressing room where someone already was hiding. They locked the door, turned off the lights and got on the floor but could hear the violence unfolding, including the gunman being subdued, he added.
“I could have lost my life — over what? What was the purpose?” he said as tears ran down his cheeks. “We were just enjoying ourselves. We weren’t out harming anyone. We were in our space, our community, our home, enjoying ourselves like everybody else does.”
Detectives were examining whether anyone had helped the suspect before the attack, Police Chief Adrian Vasquez said. He said patrons who intervened during the attack were “heroic” and prevented more deaths.
Club Q is a gay and lesbian nightclub that features a drag show on Saturdays, according to its website. Club Q’s Facebook page said planned entertainment included a “punk and alternative show” preceding a birthday dance party, with a Sunday all-ages drag brunch.
Law enforcement officers document evidence in the parking lot the morning after a mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Sunday.
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Drag events have become a focus of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and protests recently as opponents, including politicians, have proposed banning children from them, falsely claiming they’re used to “groom” children.
A hate-crime charge against Aldrich requires proving he was motivated by the victims’ actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity.
President Joe Biden said that while the motive for the shootings was not yet clear, “we know that the LGBTQI+ community has been subjected to horrific hate violence in recent years.”
“Places that are supposed to be safe spaces of acceptance and celebration should never be turned into places of terror and violence,” he said. “We cannot and must not tolerate hate.”
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, who became the first openly gay man to be elected a U.S. governor in 2018, called the shooting “sickening.”
“My heart breaks for the family and friends of those lost, injured and traumatized,” Polis said.
A makeshift memorial sprang up Sunday near the club, with flowers, a stuffed animal, candles and a sign saying “Love over hate” next to a rainbow-colored heart.
Bouquets of flowers and a sign reading “Love Over Hate” are left near Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Sunday.
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Seth Stang was buying flowers for the memorial when he was told that two of the dead were his friends. The 34-year-old transgender man said it was like having “a bucket of hot water getting dumped on you. … I’m just tired of running out of places where we can exist safely.”
Ryan Johnson, who lives near the club and was there last month, said it was one of only two nightspots for the LGBTQ community in Colorado Springs. “It’s kind of the go-to for Pride,” the 26-year-old said of the club.
Colorado Springs, a city of about 480,000 located 70 miles south of Denver, is home to the U.S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Olympic Training Center, as well as Focus on the Family, a prominent evangelical Christian ministry that lobbies against LGBTQ rights. The group condemned the shooting and said it “exposes the evil and wickedness inside the human heart.”
In November 2015, three people were killed and eight wounded at a Planned Parenthood clinic in the city when authorities say a gunman targeted the clinic because it performed abortions.
The shooting came during Transgender Awareness Week and just at the start of Sunday’s Transgender Day of Remembrance, when events around the world are held to mourn and remember transgender people lost to violence.
Since 2006, there have been 523 mass killings and 2,727 deaths as of Nov. 19, according to The Associated Press/USA Today database on mass killings in the U.S.
Bedayn is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
Associated Press reporters Colleen Slevin in Denver, Michael Balsamo in Washington, Jamie Stengle in Dallas, Jeff McMillan in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Matthew Brown in Billings, Montana, contributed.
People hold a vigil at a makeshift memorial near the Club Q nightclub Saturday in Colorado Springs, Colo.
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This week audiences will get to hear various world premiere recordings, a tenor singing Donizetti and Wagner’s Ring Cycle.
Emily & Sue
Adhyâropa Records is set to release a cappella pop-opera album from L.A.-based composer Dana Kaufman and librettist Aiden K. Feltkamp. The work will feature soprano Jasmine Muhammad and Iris Vocal Trio. This piece focuses on the little-known romantic relationship between Emily Dickinson and her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson.
The opera premiered on June 2 and 3, 2022, at Amherst College, which owns Dickinson’s home/The Emily Dickinson Museum and commissioned the work. The live version of the opera is composed for a fixed media a cappella pop trio (Iris Vocal Trio) backtrack and one live medium-high or high voice.
Cole Porter In Paris
Les Frivolités Parisiennes is set to release a new album based on the Parisian life of Cole Porter in the Roaring Twenties. b.records releases the album.
Alburnum
Bright Shiny Things releases Alburnum, an album of world premiere recordings featuring baritone Brian Mulligan and collaborative pianist, Timothy Long. The album’s repertoire includes the critically-acclaimed cycle, “Walden,” by Gregory Spears, which was composed for Mulligan, Missy Mazzoli’s “As Long As We Live,” and Mason Bates’s “Songs From the Plays.”
In a statement, Mulligan said, “I’ve wanted to create an album of world premiere recordings, my own contribution to the living, growing tree of music. After years of searching for the songs on this program, I knew these were the right ones for me. These are songs that I hope are going to be around for a good while, songs that will work their way into your heart, and into the heartwood of American Song.”
Signor Gaetano
Star tenor Javier Camarena makes his Pentatone debut with Signor Gaetano. The album features Gli Originali under the baton of Italian opera specialist Riccardo Frizza. Together they present an album featuring Donizetti’s greatest tenor arias from “L’elisir d’amore,” “Don Pasquale,” Roberto Devereux, “Betly,” “Maria de Rudenz” and “Il giovedì grasso.” The recording took place at the Teatro Donizetti in the composer’s hometown Bergamo, as part of the yearly Donizetti Festival, of which Frizza is the musical director.
“If I was asked about the composer who had the biggest impact on my life and my career, I would undoubtedly answer: Gaetano Donizetti. The first complete role I learned was Nemorino from L’elisir d’amore. In 2004 I won the Carlo Morelli’s National singing competition in Mexico with two of his most emblematic arias: ‘Come uno spirto angelico’ from ‘Roberto Devereaux’ and ‘Ah, mes amis! Quel jour de fête!’ from ‘La fille du régiment.’ Later that same year, I made my professional debut at the Palacio de Bellas Artes with La fille… and the following year, I debuted ‘Don Pasquale,’” said Camarena.
Reencuentros
Reference Recordings will release Cecilia Duarte’s first solo album. This album is a departure, containing 12 romantic boleros from multiple countries. Sung in Spanish, Duarte is accompanied by Trio Chapultepec: Vincent A. Pequeño, Israel Alcala, and William Carlton Galvez, joined by Jesús Pacheco on percussion.
Reencuentros was recorded in December of 2020 at Wire Road Studios, by engineer Andrew Bradley.
In a statement, Duarte noted, “This album is a reencounter with my past, a remembrance of the moments when I listened to my mother sing many of the songs compiled here, and a reflection of who I am as an artist today… Reencuentros represents where I come from and the stories that formed me. It is important for me to share this legacy of beautiful music, only a small token of the artistic richness of Latin American music.”
Der Ring des Nibelungen
Naxos releases Wagner’s four-part “Der Ring des Nibelungen” recorded last winter at Berlin’s Deutsche Oper. The new production is directed by Stefan Herheim, with Sir Donald Runnicles in the pit and Nina Stemme and Clay Hilley leading the cast as Brünnhilde and Siegfried.
All-Night Vigil
Cappella Records releases “All-Night Vigil” by award-winning American composer Robert Kyr. Performed by Cappella Romana and directed by its founder and music director Alexander Lingas, this is Cappella Romana’s 29th recording release.
Robert Kyr’s “All-Night Vigil” takes its formal inspiration from Sergei Rachmaninoff, who in 1915 set the same 15 selections from the Orthodox vigil for the Resurrection. Here Robert Kyr employs an English translation of those selections by the late Archimandrite Ephrem (Lash), to whom this Vigil is dedicated.
Das Rheingold
Sir Georg Solti’s recording of “Das Rheingold” will get released featuring the Wiener Philharmoniker. Universal will also release “The Golden Ring: Great Scenes from Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen.”
The Outer Edge of Youth
Acis presents the world premiere recording of “The Outer Edge of Youth,” a contemplative and thought-provoking new choral opera from the acclaimed composer, writer, and multimedia artist Scott Ordway. The two vocal soloists include Amy Broadbent and Emily Marvosh alongside Matthew Robertson and the Thirteen.
ECHO
Welsh soprano Ruby Hughes releases her latest albumin which she partners with pianist Huw Watkins, whose song cycle “Echo” was composed for Hughes and premiered in 2017 at Carnegie Hall.
The cycle sets texts by five different poets and focuses on melancholy, exploring transience, remembrance, and in the final song a numbed cry of inconceivable loss.
Telekinesis
The Crossing and Donald Nally release a new album on Nonesuch and New Amsterdam Records. The large, lush work, for electric guitars, orchestra, choir, and electronics, features The Crossing alongside Tyondai Braxton on electronics and celeste, the Metropolis Ensemble conducted by Andrew Cyr, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus conducted by Dianne Berkun Menaker.
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The final event of the 2022 PFL season takes place on Friday at Hulu Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York, and MMA Junkie will keep you updated with live results throughout the event.
The 2022 PFL Championships event features 12 fights, including all six divisional finals for a $1 million grand prize.
In the main event, undefeated two-time Olympic gold medalist and two-time PFL champion Kayla Harrison (15-0) goes for a title three-peat at women’s lightweight when she clashes with Larissa Pacheco (18-4), whom Harrison has already defeated twice before.
The co-headliner will see Brendan Loughnane (24-4) and Bubba Jenkins (19-5) clash for the featherweight championship, while elsewhere on the card Aspen Ladd (9-3) makes her promotional debut vs. former Bellator titleholder Julia Budd (16-4) at women’s featherweight, plus much more.
Full results of 2022 PFL Championship include:
Biaggio Ali Walsh vs. Tom Graesser
THIS IS OVER! Biaggio Ali Walsh gets it done in the 1st round!
PFL ambassador and investor Wiz Khalifa did an impromptu mini-concert to kick off the 2022 PFL Championships pay-per-view main card, as he performed “We Dem Boyz” and “Million Dollar Moment.”
Omari Akhmedov vs. Rob Wilkinson – light heavyweight title
#AndNOW 2022 PFL Light Heavyweight World Champion, ROBERT WILKINSON! 🇦🇺
Result: Rob Wilkinson def. Omari Akhmedov via TKO (doctor stoppage due to cut) – Round 2, 5:00 Recap: Rob Wilkinson slices Omari Akhmedov open for $1 million light heavyweight crown Records: Omari Akhmedov (24-8-1), Rob Wilkinson (17-2) Division: Light heavyweight Broadcast: ESPN+ pay-per-view Referee: Keith Peterson
Sadibou Sy vs. Dilano Taylor – welterweight title
Congratulations Sadibou Sy!#AndNOW 2022 PFL Welterweight World Champion!
Result: Sadibou Sy def. Dilano Taylor via unanimous decision (49-46, 49-46, 49-46) Recap: Sadibou Sy outkicks Dilano Taylor for $1 million PFL welterweight title Records: Sadibou Sy (12-6-2), Dilano Taylor (10-2) Division: Welterweight Broadcast: ESPN+ pay-per-view Referee: Dan Miragliotta
Olivier Aubin-Mercier vs. Stevie Ray – lightweight title
CANADA HAS A NEW WORLD CHAMPION! OLIVIER AUBIN-MERCIER IS A WORLD CHAMP! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
