Judge Warned In 2021 Of Gay Bar Attacker's Shootout Plans

More than a year before the mass shooting at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub, a judge raised concerns about the defendant’s stockpile of weapons and explosives and apparent plans for a shootout.
That warning came after the alleged nightclub shooter, Anderson Aldrich, was charged a year earlier with kidnapping relatives, including his grandparents in 2021.
Judge Robin Chittum said in August 2021 that Aldrich’s struggles with mental illness during a hearing at which the judge said Aldrich needed treatment or “it’s going to be so bad.”
That revelation, along with advance warnings that authorities are known to have had about Aldrich’s increasingly violent behavior, raised more questions about whether the recent mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs could have been prevented.

Judge Warned In 2021 Of Gay Bar Attacker’s Shootout Plans