Author: Carol McKinley
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Club Q or Club Q2, owners vow LGBTQ safe space will rise again
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Matthew Haynes has ideas for a new Club Q, and it doesn’t involve changing the name or the location. “It will be Club Q or Club Q2,” said Haynes. “Whatever it is, we want to make sure Club Q comes back and there is still a safe space.” Haynes said that he’s gotten thousands of…
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Club Q owners receive Thanksgiving call from President Biden, first lady
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Thanksgiving morning, President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden called Club Q owner Nic Grzecka and co-owner Matthew Haynes to offer condolences following last weekend’s mass shooting that killed five people including two Club Q employees and injured at least 17 more. The Bidens offered support and thanked Grzecka and Haynes for the contributions…
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Brother and sister recovering from Club Q attack
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As he lay bleeding from a gunshot wound in a state of fear and confusion at a Colorado Springs nightclub, James Slaugh treasures the moment a gray-haired stranger with glasses told him he was going to live and kissed him on the forehead. “To me, that made all of the difference. That was when I…
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Accused Club Q shooter changed name at 15; dad was MMA and porn star, mom had arrest record
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Two weeks before their 16th birthday, the accused shooter in a Colorado Springs nightclub changed their name to distance theirself from their father and an extremely troubled childhood. On May 2, 2016, according to Texas court records, Nicholas Franklin Brink became Anderson Lee Aldrich. Their upbringing is marked by a biological father with a criminal…
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Club Q suspect’s mother had a past of her own
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New footage obtained by The Gazette shows events during a 2021 bomb threat that lead to the arrest of 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich, whose name and age match that of the suspect arrested in Saturday’s Club Q shooting. In this screen recording provided by the owner of the house where Aldrich’s mother lived at the…
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‘I can’t stop hearing the shots’: Witnesses describe Colorado Springs mass shooting scene
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Joshua Thurman, a witness to the Club Q shooting, explains what he saw during the attack Tiara Latrice Kelley was scheduled to perform at a brunch honoring Transgender Day of Remembrance on Sunday at Club Q in Colorado Springs, so she just barely missed the shootings that clamed five lives and left 18 other people…
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Denver School Board votes to keep schools open
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Dozens of parents and students walked into the DPS meeting Thursday night they say to support schools. They were not in favor of closing schools. Some said schools with large numbers of students of color were being targeted Four Denver elementary schools and one middle school, which were marked for possible closure, got a reprieve…
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Colorado’s 462 faces of fentanyl
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Faces of Fentanyl cover-01.png Over 450 Coloradans died of fentanyl poisoning or overdoses just through August of this year, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. That number could be on the low end though, as toxicology testing and investigations sometimes take months, CDPHE statistician, Kirk Bol, says Through August this year…
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Bus load of desperate asylum-seekers land in Denver; first influx in 3 years
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Outside a Denver shelter Friday, whose location is being kept secret for safety’s sake, migrant children in sweats and borrowed gloves pelted one another with snowballs. Just hours into a cold place called Colorado they figured out how to build a snowman and decorated its head with a frozen autumn leaf. The busload of youths…
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A Superior effort: Lessons learned through resiliency of rebuilding after Marshall fire
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The Rock Creek Rebels have risen from the Marshall fire like a phoenix. Ten months after Colorado’s most devastating wildfire tore through Boulder County, an entire neighborhood of survivors from the town of Superior are on the eve of breaking ground to rebuild – just as the winter freeze nips at their heels. The journey…