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Army vet who helped end Club Q mass shooting to be honored by Red Cross
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The gratitude and honors continue for Club Q hero Richard Fierro, one of two men who sprung into action to subdue a mass shooter at the LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs on Nov. 19. The decorated Army veteran, who served four tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, will receive the “Lifesaving Military Hero of the Year…
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Club Q suspect celebrated dropped charges with visit to shooting range
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New footage shows Club Q shooter at shooting range day after previous felony case against him dropped When a kidnapping and felony menacing case against the alleged Club Q shooter was dismissed Aug. 11, the 22-year-old’s mother was elated. The next day, Laura Voepel took Anderson Aldrich to a Colorado Springs shooting range to celebrate. “He…
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Prosecutor struggled with alleged Club Q shooter’s bomb threat case that was dismissed
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Four days before the alleged Club Q shooter was scheduled to go to trial last year on charges of threatening to set off a bomb and become the “next mass killer,” a prosecutor handling the case could not provide key details to the presiding judge over why a key witness might not be available to…
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‘Take my wheelchair,’ Club Q victim tells nurse upon leaving 22-day hospital stay
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Twenty-two days after being shot five times – including one bullet that zipped into and out of her neck – Charlene Slaugh stood up and offered her wheelchair to her favorite nurse. Being wheeled around is not her style. Slaugh, 35, was very nearly fatality No. 6 in Colorado Springs’ Club Q mass shooting Nov. 19.…
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Club Q survivors testify before U.S. House committee
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A bartender, the Club Q nightclub founder and a wounded survivor shared real-life horror stories from the Nov. 19 mass shooting in Colorado Springs with the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform Wednesday morning. The panel is investigating the surge of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and violence in America. Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ community has long struggled…
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Subpoena service often plays critical role in court cases
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If the alleged victims of a 2021 menacing and kidnapping case had testified against the alleged Club Q shooter in court, he may have been in prison on Nov. 19, the night of the mass shooting. But after a bomb threat, a SWAT team standoff and a subsequent arrest, the 2021 case against Anderson Aldrich…
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‘So relieved and overjoyed’: Club Q shooting survivor discharged from hospital after nearly 3 weeks
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Club Q shooting victim, Ed Sanders, released from hospital after nearly three weeks Almost three weeks after the Club Q attack, survivor Ed Sanders was discharged from Memorial Hospital Central with a special sendoff from staff in Colorado Springs. The team of nurses and doctors that cared for Sanders lined the halls with pom-poms and…
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Insight into the alleged Club Q shooter from his ‘only face-to-face friend’
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Xavier Kraus’ bizarre friendship with a future accused mass shooter started with the most neighborly cliché: a knock on his apartment door for a borrowed cup of sugar. Just over a year later, his life has become a nightmare of attorneys, FBI agents and reporters who are counting on the Colorado Springs resident to fill…
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Judge unseals records of alleged Club Q shooter’s 2021 bomb threat
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An El Paso County judge on Thursday unsealed a 2021 case involving the suspect in last month’s Club Q shooting, despite opposition from the person’s family, who are listed as victims in the 2021 case. Defense attorney Joseph Archambault argued that if the case were unsealed, it would destroy Anderson Aldrich’s chance at a fair…
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FBI confirms Gazette report that it received tip in 2021 about Club Q suspect
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday confirmed the agency received information a day before authorities arrested the suspect in the Club Q shooting where five people died, for allegedly threatening family members in 2021. “As part of the assessment, the FBI coordinated with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, which arrested (Anderson) Aldrich on…
