Nation Apr 24 Former Colorado funeral home owner gets 30-year prison sentence in state court By Colleen Slevin, Matthew Brown, Associated Press
Nation Mar 16 Colorado ex-funeral home owner sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to fraud A former Colorado funeral home owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a building was sentenced Monday to 18 years in prison for cheating customers and defrauding the federal government out of nearly $900,000 in pandemic small business aid. By Colleen Slevin, Associated Press
Nation Jun 18 Shooter who killed 5 at Colorado LGBT club pleads guilty to 50 federal hate crimes, avoids death penalty Federal prosecutors have focused on proving that the attack at Club Q — a sanctuary for LGBTQ+ people in the mostly conservative city — was premeditated and fueled by bias. By Colleen Slevin, Associated Press
Nation Jun 26 Club Q shooter who killed 5 gets life in prison “Like too many other people in our culture, you chose to find a power that day behind the trigger of a gun, your actions reflect the deepest malice of the human heart, and malice is almost always born of ignorance… By Colleen Slevin, Jesse Bedayn, Associated Press
Nation Jun 26 Suspect pleads guilty in attack that killed 5 at Club Q Monday's plea by Anderson Lee Aldrich comes just seven months after the shooting and spares victim's families and survivors a long and potentially painful trial. By Colleen Slevin, Associated Press
Dec 08 Colorado judge unseals documents in Club Q shooting suspect's past bomb threat case By Colleen Slevin, Associated Press A judge unsealed a dropped bomb threat case Thursday against the Colorado gay bar shooting suspect who threatened to become the “next mass killer” over a year before allegedly killing five people and wounding seventeen others at the LGBTQ enclave… Continue reading
Dec 06 Colorado LGBTQ nightclub shooting suspect charged with hate crimes By Colleen Slevin, Associated Press The suspect accused of entering a Colorado Springs gay nightclub and killing five people and wounding 17 others was formally charged with hate crimes as well as murder. Continue reading
Nov 27 Club Q patron who helped stop shooter said he 'wanted to save the family I found' By Associated Press A member of the U.S. Navy who was injured while helping prevent further harm during a shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado last weekend said Sunday that he “simply wanted to save the family that I found.”… Continue reading
Nov 25 Colorado Springs reckons with past after Club Q shooting By Sam Metz, Stephen Groves, Associated Press Though the suspect facing possible murder and hate crime charges is not from Colorado Springs, the targeting of LGBTQ people has reminded some of the 1990s, when the city was known as an epicenter of religion-infused, family-values conservatism unfriendly to… Continue reading
Nov 24 Club Q owner says Colorado Springs shooting comes amid a new 'type of hate' By Jesse Bedayn, Associated Press The co-owner of Colorado Springs’ Club Q said that anti-LGBTQ hate has evolved from prejudice to incitement. In one of his first interviews since Saturday night’s mass shooting, Nic Grzecka told the Associated Press that politicians calling transgender people “groomers”… Continue reading