Tag: mass shooting
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Federal judge rejects constitutional claims, ‘expressions of hatred’ by Club Q defendant
A federal judge rejected a defendant’s claims that he received constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel while facing federal hate crime and firearms charges for murdering five people at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub in 2022. Anderson Lee Aldrich is serving multiple lifetime sentences in prison on state murder charges, plus an effective life sentence for…
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Self-proclaimed Planned Parenthood gunman dies in federal prison nearly 10 years after shooting, records show
The man who allegedly killed three people in the 2015 Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs died while in federal custody, according to inmate records. The Federal Bureau of Prisons database shows that Robert Dear Jr., 67, died Saturday in at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners (MCFP) in Springfield, Mo. Officials within the…
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Candlelight vigil, A Night of Resilience and Strength scheduled 2 years after Club Q shooting
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The owners of The Q by the Orbit Lounge, founded by former Club Q employees and shooting survivors Michael Anderson and Tara Bush, are hosting a memorial event Tuesday, the two-year mark since the mass shooting at the Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ dance club. A Night…
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Candlelight vigil, A Night of Resilience and Strength scheduled 2 years after Club Q shooting
The owners of The Q by the Orbit Lounge, founded by former Club Q employees and shooting survivors Michael Anderson and Tara Bush, are hosting a memorial event Tuesday, the two-year mark since the mass shooting at the Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ dance club. A Night of Resilience and Strength: Two Years After Club Q is…
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Hundreds gather to commemorate second-year mark of deadly Club Q shooting
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When Ashtin Gamblin heard a loud noise near the front of Club Q on the night of Nov. 19, 2022, she didn’t think much of it at first. “I heard a really loud bang. I thought someone had thrown a snowball,” said Gamblin, who was…
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Hundreds gather to commemorate second-year mark of deadly Club Q shooting
When Ashtin Gamblin heard a loud noise near the front of Club Q on the night of Nov. 19, 2022, she didn’t think much of it at first. “I heard a really loud bang. I thought someone had thrown a snowball,” said Gamblin, who was working the door at the LGBTQ+ nightclub. “Then I looked…
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Club Q memorial gathering planned as 2-year anniversary of tragedy nears
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A gathering to memorialize the victims and honor survivors of the Club Q mass shooting is planned for Sunday outside the since-closed LGBTQ+ dance club at 3430 N. Academy Blvd., where a bias-motivated attack killed five people, injured dozens, and sent shock waves of grief…
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Club Q memorial gathering planned as 2-year anniversary of tragedy nears
A gathering to memorialize the victims and honor survivors of the Club Q mass shooting is planned for Sunday outside the since-closed LGBTQ+ dance club at 3430 N. Academy Blvd., where a bias-motivated attack killed five people, injured dozens, and sent shock waves of grief and fear through Colorado Springs on Nov. 19, 2022. The…
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Magistrates, lawyers discuss youth, guns and responses to school safety
Adams County Magistrate Michal Lord-Blegen was a school administrator in Aurora when two teenagers killed 13 people and themselves at Columbine High School in 1999. The massacre was a lens through which she viewed her subsequent work as a principal and as a lawyer. “We’ve got a lot of kids with guns,” said Lord-Blegen earlier this…
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Woman facing charges in November triple homicide extradited to Colorado
The woman facing charges for her part in a November triple homicide in Custer County has been extradited to Colorado. According to the Custer County Sheriff’s Office, Nancy Rae Medina-Kochis was transferred from a New Mexico jail to El Paso County on Monday. A report from the El Paso County jail states Medina-Kochis was booked…