Club Q shooter sentenced to life in prison

In a press conference Monday after the fi nal court hearing, El Paso County (Colo.) District Attorney Michael J. Allen announced that a plea deal had been reached with the shooter in last November’s mass shooting at the LGBTQ entertainment venue Club Q. Colorado Fourth Judicial District Court Judge Michael McHenry accepted the plea deal worked out with Allen’s offi ce where Anderson Lee Aldrich, 23, pleaded guilty to fi ve counts of murder in the fi rst degree, 46 counts of attempted murder in the fi rst degree.

McHenry said that Aldrich will receive fi ve consecutive life sentences without the possibility for parole on the murder charges, and will also receive 46 consecutive 48-year sentences for the attempted murder counts, which totals 2,208 years, followed by mandatory periods of parole. This is a fi nal decision — a trial cannot happen at a later date.

BRODY LEVESQUE