UPDATE: Club Q Shooter’s Lawyers Cease Using They/Them Pronouns

Circumstantial evidence suggests the Colorado Springs murderer is not, in fact, nonbinary.

by Evan Urquhart

There’s more information about the individual who is accused of open-firing on people at Club Q in Colorado Springs shortner before Thanksgiving, including new evidence regarding the accused’s identity. According to Alex Bollinger for LGBTQ Nation, lawyers for Anderson Lee Aldrich used he/him pronouns on December 6, despite initially having written in a court document of their intention to refer to Aldrich using they/them and the prefix “Mx.” Friends and family members have also refered to Aldrich as he and him, Alrdich has been descirbed as frequently using anti-gay slurs, and as yet no one who knew the accused as a nonbinary person who used they/them pronouns has come forward.

Other reporting has painted a picture of someone deeply connected to extreme white supremacist online communities. According to reporting by Jo Yurcaba and Ben Collins of NBC, Anderson Lee Aldrich owned and operated a “free speech” website which hosted racist, anti-semitic, and other extreme content. Aldrich’s website also prominently linked to a “brother site” on which four videos were posted. Each of these were posted in the hours before the Club Q shooting, and may have been made by Aldrich. One has a voice on them which a friend told reporters sounds similar to Aldrich’s, another shows a brief reflection of someone that resembles Aldrich. Based on this, some have speculated that Aldrich may have planned to take video of the shooting.

In addition, reporting By Jim Mustian, Colleen Slevin and Bernard Condon for the Associated Press describes a previous act of terror where Aldrich made threats of becoming the next mass shooter. This happened during an extended encounter with police, but somehow did not result in any charges, or in the confiscation of the suspect’s many firearms.