Tag: club q shooting
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Case involving Club Q shooter’s mom dismissed by court
The misdemeanor case of the mother of Club Q shooter Anderson Aldrich was dismissed on Tuesday due to her ongoing competency issues, more than two years after charges were first filed. Laura Voepel, 47, was facing misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct after police told Voepel on Nov. 20, 2022, that her child, Aldrich,…
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Diversus Health provides free counseling to LGBTQ+ community and Club Q survivors
Local Pride festivities recognizing all things LGBTQ+ came last weekend and went for another year, but Diversus Health in Colorado Springs is continuing to offer free individual counseling, peer support and a support group for survivors of the mass shooting at Club Q on Nov. 19, 2022, as well as the queer community in general.…
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New resource and community center opens in Colorado Springs to assist Club Q survivors, LGBTQ+ population
Derrick Rump believed that community problems could be solved if everyone got together and talked about them, so Derrick’s Domain is the name of a colorful conference room inside the new Prism Community Collective headquarters south of downtown Colorado Springs. “It best describes who he was,” Carter Cadena, the nonprofit’s community resources specialist, said Tuesday…
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Community gathers for one-year remembrance of Club Q shooting
On Sunday, November 19, 2023, a crowd assembled outside the main entrance of Club Q, a former LGBTQ+ establishment in Colorado Springs, to honor those killed in a mass shooting one year ago today.
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NEWS | Richard Fierro honored Tuesday at Atrevida
Richard Fierro, the Army veteran who helped stop the gunman during the Club Q shooting, was honored at the brewery he and his wife operate, Atrevida Beer Company, on Tuesday. Ent Credit Union presented Fierro with a check for $50,000.