On Saturday, Nov. 19, a heavily-armed gunman entered Club Q, the preeminent LGBTQ+ establishment in the conservative leaning Colorado Springs, and opened fire on the clubgoers.
The attacker killed five people and left 17 others with injuries before being subdued by an US Army veteran and a drag performer.
Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, has been charged with five counts of murder and five charges of committing a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury.
“One of the performers was walking by and I told her kick him,” said Richard Fierro, the veteran who was attending a drag performance at the club with his wife and daughter when the attack took place.