While much has been made about so-called “anti-LGBTQ rhetoric” being the cause of a lunatic who is admittedly “non-binary” going into a Colorado Springs nightclub and shooting up the place, killing five and wounding a number of others, the elephant in the room is being conveniently ignored by much of the mainstream media.
According to the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF), the suspect in the shooting, Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, last year threatened to bomb his mother’s home.
Yet for unknown reasons, Colorado Springs District Attorney Michael Allen refused to lodge formal charges against him, according to multiple reports. And for unknown reasons, Allen refuses to explain why charges were not filed.
DCNF said when they requested information from Allen’s office about Aldrich, they were told in a statement that “a public criminal record does not exist.”
Last week, Aldrich went into the nightclub, Club Q, a location that caters to the alphabet community where he shot and killed the five victims. But according to accounts of what happened on June 18, 2021, Aldrich for all intents and purposes should have been in jail.
On that date, Aldrich’s mother contacted police, accusing her son of threatening her with a homemade bomb, as well as multiple weapons and ammunition, according to an El Paso County Sheriff’s Office press release, however, Allen refused to pursue formal charges, The Gazette reported.
Details of the case have been sealed, and under Colorado’s privacy laws, authorities are prohibited from acknowledging even the existence of such records. ABC News and a number of other news outlets have petitioned a court to unseal the records regarding Aldrich’s 2021 arrest, which would seem to be in the public’s best interest.
“Upon an inquiry into a sealed record, a criminal justice agency shall reply that a public criminal record does not exist with respect to the defendant who is the subject of the sealed record,” the Colorado law reads.
When authorities received the report from Aldrich’s mother, they contacted him via telephone and found he was at a different location on an adjacent area street. He was asked to surrender, however, refused. This led to police having to evacuate about ten homes in the area, then finally convinced him to surrender. He was apprehended about five hours after the initial complaint.