The suspect accused of killing five people in a mass shooting last year at a Colorado LGBTQ club ran a neo-Nazi website, a police detective testified during a court hearing.
, a former neighbor and friend of the suspect, told NBC News in an exclusive interview last year that an FBI agent had asked him about two websites at an FBI field office in Colorado Springs.
One of the websites, a forum-type “free speech” site where people have anonymously posted racist and antisemitic memes, language and videos, was created by the suspect, Kraus said he told investigators. Kraus, who, according to public records, lived one door away from Aldrich in a Colorado Springs apartment complex, said he told the FBI that Aldrich made the free speech website in late spring or early summer. Kraus said Aldrich described the site as “a platform where people could go and post pretty much whatever they want.”
Aldrich, who wore an orange jail jumpsuit at the hearing and cried at times, identifies as nonbinary and uses the pronouns they and them. During the hearing, new details also emerged about the heroic actions of the two men credited with putting an end to the Nov. 19 attack atNavy Petty Officer 2nd Class Thomas James grabbed the barrel of the suspect’s rifle after shots rang out in an attempt “to disarm the shooter,” blistering his hand because it was so hot, Detective Ashton Gardner told the court.
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