Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Once again, 'The subject was known to the authorities'

A year and a half before he was arrested in the Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooting that left five people dead, Anderson Lee Aldrich allegedly threatened his mother with a homemade bomb, forcing neighbors in surrounding homes to evacuate while the bomb squad and crisis negotiators talked him into surrendering.

Yet despite that scare, there’s no public record that prosecutors moved forward with felony kidnapping and menacing charges against Aldrich, or that police or relatives tried to trigger Colorado’s “red flag” law that would have allowed authorities to seize the weapons and ammo the man’s mother says he had with him.

Doesn't all this sound familiar?  Like this does:
Colorado Springs police would not comment officially on whether the suspected shooter was the same individual charged with multiple counts of kidnapping and felony menacing after the bomb-threat incident in southeastern Colorado Springs on June 18, 2021. But the man taken into custody at that time had the same name and age as the Club Q shooter. A federal law-enforcement official on Sunday confirmed that the Club Q gunman’s birth date matched that of the bomb-threat suspect.

The Colorado Springs district attorney’s office ultimately declined to bring formal charges in the wake of the 2021 bomb-threat incident, and the court records for the case were placed under seal, the Colorado Springs Gazette reported.

Again.  But "We need more gun laws!" they cry...

4 comments:

Steve said...

That event seems to me to be a practice run for their servant/mindless bot/progressive stooge.

Just Some Guy said...

The Question is why were the records sealed?

Firehand said...

Like a number of other things, that is a damn good question.

markm said...

I thought it might be that he was a juvenile, but I looked him up in Wikipedia and he was 21 when he made the bomb threat. So, what kind of influence did his relatives have?

It's not surprising when some malefactor's mother wants a crime against her hushed up, but she was not the only victim. The cops evacuated the neighborhood while checking out the bomb threat, which makes all his neighbors victims. The police department could also be counted a victim - turning so many cops out to respond takes a bite out of the budget and interrupts other activities.