Daniel Aston was 28 years old and worked as a bar supervisor at Club Q. He was on his shift on that fateful night and his co-worker, bartender Michael Anderson, was devastated that Aston didn’t make it out alive. “He was the best supervisor anybody could’ve asked for . . . he made me want to be a part of the positive culture we were trying to create there,” Anderson told CNN. Aston moved to Colorado Springs in 2020 to be closer to his parents — Jeff and Sabrina — who lived just a few minutes away from the nightclub.
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In an interview with The Denver Post, Sabrina described her son as an entertainer who was always friendly from the time he was little. He was a transgender man who was the happiest he’d ever been just before his death. According to Sabrina, Daniel told her he was a boy at just 4 years old and refused to wear girls’ clothing until he was bullied. At around 11 years old, he told his mother that he was gay. “Actually, I knew he was trans, but he hadn’t figured that out yet,” Sabrina said. Daniel started transitioning in college and embraced his identity. “It’s just unbelievable. He had so much more life to give to us, and to all his friends and to himself,” his mother stated. Jeff and Sabrina don’t want the loss of their son to be in vain, and they are doing their part in raising awareness of the transgender community. “We do not care, and no one else should either, how you dress or what you identify as. It doesn’t harm anybody,” Sabrina said.
