Prosecutors have been presenting evidence that the person charged with killing five people at a gay club in Colorado last year planned the attack, visiting at least six previous times and drawing a map of its layout
A tribute is placed in a fence of Club Q, which was the site of a mass shooting in November 2022, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, in Colorado Springs, Colo. A Navy sailor grabbed the barrel of a gunman’s rifle and an Army veteran rushed in to help as they ended the deadly mass shooting at the gay nightclub in November, a police detective testified Wednesday. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
But on the first day of the hearing Wednesday, Aldrich’s lawyers countered with a picture of a suspect under the influence of drugs and forced by their troubled and sometimes abusive mother to go to LGBTQ clubs and as someone who has expressed remorse for the November shooting.
Unlike other crimes, hate crime charges require prosecutors to present evidence of a motive — that Aldrich was driven by bias, either wholly or in part. The lead detective in the shooting, Rebecca Joines, testified that Aldrich posted the neo-Nazi video, which featured attacks on synagogues and mosques abroad, including on two mosques in New Zealand in 2019, on a website they either created or administered. Joines said Aldrich had not created the video, which has been posted by many others online, but said she believed they were seeking to emulate it with the attack on the club.
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