club q shooting
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People gather in Colorado and across U.S. to mourn Club Q shooting victims
The mass shooting at a Colorado Springs nightclub that left five people dead, and 18 injured, seems to have impacted people far beyond the city – or even state – borders. People throughout the United States, and from around the world, joined or will join together to remember the lives of the people who died…
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How the El Paso County DA can keep arrest affidavit for Club Q suspect secret
The ability to take away a person’s freedom is one of the most serious powers held by a government. An arrest affidavit is a key document explaining to a judge – and the public – a law enforcement agency’s rationale for doing so. But an open records law in Colorado allows agencies broad discretion to withhold criminal justice records,…
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LGBTQ community calls for safety at Colorado Springs City Council meeting
Members of Colorado Springs’ LGBTQ community and their supporters called on city leaders to help ensure the town is safe for them. Several people said during Tuesday’s meeting and in interviews that they had seen and experienced discrimination and hateful remarks in town before the shooting at Club Q on Saturday. Club Q shooting survivor…
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Club Q shooting survivor smiles through tragedy: ‘I’m happy to be alive’
Ed Sanders was shot during the deadly Q Club attack, after which he was taken to UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central. Sanders said after the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting, he imagined it could happen at Club Q, where he was a regular patron since its opening in 2002. Club Q patron Ed Sanders was twice struck…
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Accused Club Q shooter changed name at 15; dad was MMA and porn star, mom had arrest record
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 victim Raymond Green Vance: ‘Kind, selfless’ man was ready for next step in life
Raymond Green Vance, 22, was at Club Q with his longtime girlfriend, her parents and a group of friends on Saturday night when a heavily armed gunman opened fire inside the Colorado Springs nightclub. Vance was one of five people killed in the brief but horrific shooting rampage that injured more than a dozen. “Raymond…
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Club Q victim Derrick Rump: Bartender was ‘the heart of Club Q’
A loving friend. A straight shooter. A “star bartender.” An out-and-proud gay man. The superlatives poured in from friends and Club Q patrons following the news that Derrick Rump, a bartender at the LGBTQ nightclub in east Colorado Springs, was one of five people killed Saturday in a mass shooting that also left 18 people…
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Club Q victim Ashley Paugh: Wife, mom ‘would do anything for anyone’
Ashley Paugh was the type of person who “had a huge heart” and “would do anything for anyone,” family members recalled Monday. “She was an amazing sister, mom, daughter, wife, aunt and cousin,” Paugh’s sister Stephanie Clark told The Gazette by phone Monday in a tearful and emotional interview. “That coward took her away and…