Colorado Springs shooting: suspect faces murder and hate crime charges

Shooter faces five murder charges and five charges of committing a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury, records show

The suspect in a weekend gun attack on an LBGTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs will face five murder charges, and five additional hate crime counts of causing injury with bias motivation", preliminary records released on Monday afternoon show.

The details came as police updated the number of injured in the Saturday night rampage at Club Q to 18, and said the alleged shooter, 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich, remained in custody at a local hospital.