The man suspected of opening fire at a nightclub in Colorado Springs was being held on murder and hate crimes charges on Nov. 21, two days after the attack that killed five people and wounded many others.
Online court records showed that Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, faced five murder charges and five charges of committing a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury in Saturday night’s attack at Club Q.
It was not immediately clear if the allegations were formal charges filed by prosecutors or preliminary charges filed by police. Prosecutors and police did not respond to requests for comment on the records. The hate crime charges would require proving that the suspect was motivated by the victims’ actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity….