Alleged ‘Anti-LGBT’ Mass Shooter Who Didn’t Fit Media Narrative Quietly Sentenced on Monday
Anderson Lee Aldrich was supposed to be to LGBT hate what Dylann Roof was to white supremacist extremism or the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue shooter was to anti-Semitism in America. He was an object lesson in how bigoted, how hateful and how divided this country was.
On Monday, 23-year-old Aldrich was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, according to Reuters, after pleading guilty to five counts of first-degree murder and 46 counts of attempted murder after a shooting rampage inside a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado in November 2022. The plea garnered little media coverage; Reuters’ report was only 15 paragraphs and made no mention of hate other than a brief mention that he “pleaded no contest to two counts of bias-motivated crimes.”
You may have forgotten about Aldrich and the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs.
