BREAKING: The suspect in a mass shooting at LGBTQ bar Club Q in Colorado pleads guilty to five counts of murder in the first degree in a plea deal.
Anderson Lee Aldrich, who identifies as nonbinary, has pleaded guilty to five counts of murder in the first degree, 46in the first degree. They pleaded no contest to two bias-motivated crimes.
They will plead no contest to "a class five felony bias-motivated crime and class one misdemeanor bias-motivated crime" with associated sentences, according to McHenry. Daniel Davis Aston, Kelly Loving, Derrick Rump, Ashley Paugh and Raymond Green Vance died in the attack. At least 19 people were also injured in the shooting.In February, preliminary hearings were held on whether the case against Aldrich was strong enough to move forward. Their defense attorneys focused on Aldrich's mental health and highlighted Aldrich's history of drug use and claimed they suffered abuse at home to counter the messaging that Aldrich was motivated by hate.
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