DENVER — The man sentenced for the Club Q mass shooting in November 2022, killing five people and injuring 17 others, has been booked into the Denver Reception and Diagnostic Center.
23-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich pleaded guilty to the five counts of first-degree murder and all 46 counts of attempted first-degree murder, and pleaded “no contest” to two charges of bias-motivated crimes. That means he does not have the possibility of parole.
Alrich uses they/them pronouns.
They were sentenced to five consecutive life sentences plus 2,208 years in the department of corrections– the longest sentence handed down in the 4th Judicial District and second-longest in state history, according to District Attorney Michael Allen.
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The death penalty was mentioned by some of the victims during Anderson’s Monday sentencing and press conference.
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Colorado does not have a death penalty as a sentence for serious crimes. It was repealed by the governor in 2020.
However, the FBI has opened an investigation to determine if the Club Q shooter should face federal charges and the possibility of the death penalty, even though it’s abolished on the state level.
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The five victims of the Club Q shooting who died in the Club Q shooting were 28-year-old Daniel Aston, 22-year-old Raymond Green Vance, 40-year-old Kelly Loving and 38-year-old Derrick Rump.
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