Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ club shooter posted to neo-Nazi website, police say

Hearing under way to determine whether 22-year-old accused of Club Q shooting should be charged with hate crime

The 22-year-old accused of carrying out the deadly mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs in November posted to a neo-Nazi website and used gay and racial slurs while gaming online, a police detective testified on Wednesday.

Among the things Anderson Lee Aldrich posted was an image of a rifle scope trained on a gay pride parade and a shooting training video. Aldrich, who identifies as nonbinary and uses the pronouns they and them, also used a bigoted slur when referring to someone who was gay, Detective Rebecca Joines testified at the start of a three-day hearing to determine if there is enough evidence to warrant a hate crime charge against Aldrich in the 19 November attack.