Tag: Club Q Shooting
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Alleged Club Q shooter could face a dozen new charges atop 300-plus already filed
Prosecutors filed a motion Monday to bring 12 additional charges against the alleged Club Q shooter. Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, already faces 305 criminal charges in the LGBTQ+ nightclub shooting that claimed five lives and injured nearly two dozen others. Fourth Judicial District attorney Michael Allen proposed the new charges in connection with two victims…
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Club Q suspect celebrated dropped charges with visit to shooting range
When a kidnapping and felony menacing case against Anderson Aldrich was dismissed Aug. 11, the now-accused Club Q killer’s mother was elated. The next day, Laura Voepel took the 22-year-old to a Colorado Springs shooting range to celebrate. “He was a free man,” said his neighbor, Xavier Kraus, who related a text message from Voepel. Aldrich…
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‘Take my wheelchair,’ Club Q victim tells nurse upon leaving 22-day hospital stay
Twenty-two days after being shot five times — including one bullet which zipped into and out of her neck — Charlene Slaugh stood up and offered her wheelchair to her favorite nurse just before she left the hospital to finally go home. Being wheeled around is not her style. Slaugh, 35, was very nearly victim No.…
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‘So relieved and overjoyed’: Club Q shooting survivor discharged from hospital after nearly 3 weeks
Almost three weeks after the Club Q attack, survivor Ed Sanders was discharged from Memorial Hospital Central with a special sendoff from staff in Colorado Springs. The team of nurses and doctors that cared for Sanders lined the halls with pom-poms and balloons to cheer him on as he was released Thursday afternoon, according to…
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Underwriting ensures 100% of contributions to Colorado Healing Fund go to Club Q victim assistance
Underwriting separate from public donations made to the Colorado Healing Fund will cover most expenses associated with administering the fund to assist victims of the Nov. 19 Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs, officials announced Tuesday. That means “all of the $1.9 million raised to date and all future funds raised for Club Q will…
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Offering condolences, Biden says he, first lady are heartbroken by Club Q shooting in Colorado
President Joe Biden on Tuesday penned a letter expressing condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims of the Club Q shooting, saying he and first lady Jill Biden share their grief and heartbreak. “To the loved ones and families left behind, I know that nothing I write will fill the void of their…
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Veteran who subdued Club Q shooter receives $50,000 Community Advocate Award
The Army veteran who disarmed the Club Q gunman received a $50,000 award from Ent Credit Union on Tuesday. For his bravery, selflessness and quick thinking in halting a mass shooting that killed five people and injured dozens more, Richard Fierro was awarded the credit union’s first-ever Community Advocate Award at the Atrevida Beer Co.,…
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NEWS | Richard Fierro honored Tuesday at Atrevida
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Richard Fierro, the Army veteran who helped stop the gunman during the Club Q shooting, was honored at the brewery he and his wife operate, Atrevida Beer Company, on Tuesday. Ent Credit Union presented Fierro with a check for $50,000.
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NEWS | Richard Fierro honored Tuesday at Atrevida
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Richard Fierro, the Army veteran who helped stop the gunman during the Club Q shooting, was honored at the brewery he and his wife operate, Atrevida Beer Company, on Tuesday. Ent Credit Union presented Fierro with a check for $50,000.
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Colorado clergy call for LGBTQ+ affirmation — and an end to ‘political, civic and religious hate speech’
The Rev. Roger Butts, interim minister at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, couldn’t sleep the night of Nov. 20. Some 700 people had come through the doors of his church that day for three vigils of a mass shooting that happened at a queer nightclub in Colorado Springs the night before. So he sat in…