Will the Colorado gay club shooting be prosecuted as a hate crime?

LGBTQ Coloradans have no doubt of the motive for the deadly attack, but bias-crime legislation in the state is complicated

Colorado's LGBTQ+ communities are waiting with fearful and angry anticipation as evidence against the suspected Club Q shooter accused of killing five people and wounding 17 more is being gathered by local police and reviewed by prosecutors.

Online court records show Anderson Aldrich, who has identified in legal papers as nonbinary, is facing five murder charges and five charges of committing a bias-motivated crime, as investigations into the circumstances of the shooting - and what motivated it - continue.