Anderson Aldrich, the convicted killer in the Club Q mass shooting, is set to enter a guilty plea and accept a prison sentence on June 18 in federal court, new court documents obtained reveal.

On June 26, 2023, Aldrich pleaded guilty to 51 charges at the state level for killing five people at the Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ nightclub Club Q in November 2022.

For conducting the mass shooting, Aldrich was given five sentences of life in prison for each count of first-degree murder and an additional 2,208 years in prison for each count of attempted first-degree murder.

According to the criminal information sheet filed on Jan. 5, Aldrich faces 74 new charges filed against them at the federal level, which include 50 hate crime charges and 24 firearms charges.

The criminal information sheet detailed that Aldrich’s attorney had already accepted a plea deal that will likely keep Aldrich from receiving the death penalty.

According to documents filed in federal court on June 4, Aldrich is expected to enter a guilty plea on all counts and be sentenced at a federal court hearing.

The joint motion for order regarding sentencing procedure filed on Jan. 9 stated that Aldrich is expected to receive “multiple concurrent life sentences” and an additional 190 years in prison.

The sentencing statement filed by federal prosecutors on Tuesday reaffirms the expected penalty to be life in prison and not the death penalty in the federal case.

New weapon details

New details about the 2022 mass shooting were also revealed in the sentencing statement. According to the document, Aldrich spent over $9,000 in weapons-related purchases from at least 56 different vendors before the attack on Club Q, and law enforcement found a black binder entitled “How to Handle an Active Shooter” inside Aldrich’s apartment.

Further information about Aldrich’s previous hate speech against the LGBTQ+ community was also revealed in the document. According to the sentencing statement, Aldrich was fired from a job at Goodwill Industries that prompted the defendant to send a series of homophobic comments to his supervisor.

“On October 28, 2022, the defendant was terminated from a job. Later that day, the defendant’s supervisor received thousands of bias-motivated spam email messages using racist and anti-LGBTQIA+ slurs in a spam attack facilitated by the defendant,” the sentencing statement reads.

Further details regarding Aldrich’s hate speech are contained within the document, including multiple uses of homophobic slurs in conversation and numerous instances of Aldrich posting content related to mass shootings and acts of violence against LGBTQ+ online.

Aldrich is the Wyoming State Penitentiary, according to previous reporting from The Gazette. 

Aldrich’s federal plea and sentencing statement is scheduled for 9 a.m. on June 18.