Facts

• A gunman on Saturday night opened fire inside an LGBTQ+ club in Colorado Springs, Colo., killing five people and injuring 25. Club attendees subdued and detained the gunman until law enforcement arrived to take him into custody. After the arrest, the attacker was treated for his injuries.
• The 22-year-old gunman immediately began shooting after entering the venue, before he was stopped by two clubgoers. The patrons were described as "heroic" by Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez.
• The perpetrator, identified by law enforcement as Anderson Lee Aldrich, was said to have been carrying two firearms, one being a "long rifle." He was previously arrested in 2021 after his mother reported him for allegedly threatening her with a homemade bomb, but no explosives were found and no charges were pursued.
• One clubgoer said he heard four to five shots, but first thought the sounds were part of the music and continued dancing. When he "heard more shots and saw the flash from the muzzle of the gun," he ran to the dressing room "and locked the door and laid down on the floor.”
• Court records show Aldrich has been charged with five counts of murder and five counts of committing a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury, which is the Colorado equivalent of a hate crime.
• The attack came on the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance, in which trans people who lost their lives to anti-trans violence and hate are remembered. The victims of the attack remain unidentified, though the parents of Club Q employee Daniel Aston say their son was one of the dead.