And since then, there's been no real question that Aldrich was responsible for the shooting. Three patrons inside the club actually tackled the shooter and held him down until police arrived. Dozens of others were fleeing for their lives. And in less than five minutes, five people were shot to death. On November 19 of last year, Anderson Lee Aldrich went into the club and began firing indiscriminately. INSKEEP: There have been so many mass shootings that I feel obliged to get you to remind us what happened in this particular one.īECKMAN: So Club Q is a long-standing place for LGBTQ+ people in Colorado Springs to gather and celebrate as a community. Anderson Lee Aldrich was sentenced without possibility of parole. The man who killed five people and injured more than a dozen others in an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs last November will spend the rest of his life in prison.
