‘Lock this animal away to the depths of hell’: Mass shooter who slaughtered 5 at gay nightclub gets life plus nearly 2 centuries

Background: This image provided by state prosecutors shows surveillance video of Club Q shooting suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich firing a weapon in the Colorado Springs, Colo., venue on Nov. 19, 2022. (4th Judicial District Attorney

Background: This image provided by state prosecutors shows surveillance video of Club Q shooting suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich firing a weapon in the Colorado Springs, Colo., venue on Nov. 19, 2022. (4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office via AP)/ Inset: Mass shooting suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich appears in two booking photos provided by the Colorado Springs Police Department.

A federal judge in Colorado has ordered that Anderson Lee Aldrich, the man who strolled into a LGBTQ+ nightclub in 2022 and opened fire with an AR-15 rifle, killing 5 people and injuring 19, will spend the rest of his life in prison plus 190 years more.

Aldrich, 24, will have no chance at parole. Per a statement from the U.S. Justice Department, Aldrich was sentenced to 55 concurrent sentences to run consecutively to 190 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to 74 federal hate crimes and firearms charges for the November 19, 2022 shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs.

Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty after reaching a plea agreement with Aldrich earlier this year. As a part of that plea, he admitted that the shooting was inspired, in part, by his hatred of the LGBTQ+ community.

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