Club Q mass shooter sentenced to life in prison on federal hate crime charges - Lemmy.World

Five people were killed in the attack on the LGBTQ bar. The shooter who killed five and injured over a dozen more at an LGBTQ nightclub [https://abcnews.go.com/US/club-change-location-after-tragic-mass-shooting/story?id=104249550] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2022 accepted a plea deal Tuesday in connection with federal hate crimes charges and was given 55 concurrent life sentences. Anderson Lee Aldrich pleaded guilty to each of the 74 charges of violating provisions of the Matthew Shepard And James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 as well as gun crimes in the Club Q shooting. Aldrich initially pleaded not guilty. United States District Judge Charlotte N. Sweeney accepted the plea agreement, sentencing Aldrich to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, to be followed by a 190-year sentence of imprisonment.