Tag: club q shooting
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Club Q survivors, family members call on Colorado Healing Fund to release additional contributions
Survivors and family members of those killed or injured in the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs say seven months after the violence erupted at the popular LGBTQ+ nightclub on North Academy Boulevard they are still “pleading” to receive funds that have been raised in their name. About 10 of them gathered at City Hall…
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Suspect in Club Q nightclub mass shooting expected to take plea deal: Report
The suspect in the mass shooting at Club Q last November is expected to strike a plea deal to state murder and hate charges that would ensure at least a life sentence for the attack that killed five people and wounded 25, several survivors told The Associated Press. Word of a possible legal resolution of last…
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Lawyer for mom of alleged Club Q shooter requests competency evaluation
A competency evaluation was requested for Laura Voepel, the mother of alleged Club Q shooter Anderson Aldrich, during a court hearing Thursday. At a hearing last month, Voepel’s attorney, Carrie Thompson, told Judge Yolanda Fennick that misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct against her client came after police told Voepel on Nov. 20, 2022, that her child…
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Club Q shooting victims file notices to sue El Paso County
Several victims of the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs and some of their family members have notified El Paso County officials they intend to file lawsuits, claiming the Sheriff’s Office “played a role” in the violence after it failed to invoke Colorado’s red flag gun law against the alleged shooter during an earlier 2021…
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Rich Fierro named grand marshal of Pikes Peak Pride Parade
Club Q hero Richard Fierro has been named the grand marshal for the 2023 Pikes Peak Pride parade, part of a weekend-long community celebration June 10 and 11 in Colorado Springs. The honor is just one of many bestowed on the Army veteran in the months after he helped subdue and disarm a mass shooter…
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Club Q offers personalized tiles for new memorial
Club Q is offering a new way for patrons to help with fundraising for a permanent tribute to the victims of November’s mass shooting at the LGBTQ+ nightclub. Through a collaboration with Fundraising Brick, patrons can purchase a personalized 4- by 8-inch tile for $150, which will be part of a tribute on the nightclub’s…
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Brewery co-owned by Club Q hero receives complaints amid frustrations over back-ordered apparel
T-shirtgate: It’s revealed the best of many, the worst of a few, and how things behind the scenes at a family-run microbrewery — things like selling logo apparel online, and returning to work after a deadly mass shooting — don’t always go the way you planned, or how everyone else expects. Rich Fierro, the co-owner…
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Almost $1 million in Compassion Fund donations heading to Club Q survivors, victims’ families
Almost a million dollars in donations to the Club Q Victims and Survivors Compassion Fund will be distributed directly to survivors and the families of five people killed in the Nov. 19 mass shooting in Colorado Springs, the fund’s steering committee announced Thursday. The committee says all of the $939,978 collected from more than 20,000…
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Club Q lays groundwork for ‘phoenix-like’ rebirth; remodel, on-site memorial planned
When the founding owner of Club Q and his newly-appointed advisory and development team set out to design a permanent on-site memorial to the victims and survivors of the massacre last year in Colorado Springs, they found themselves on a well-worn but largely unmarked path through a uniquely American landscape. Only a fraction of the…
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Club Q’s remodel plans include many new features and a tribute; rendering revealed
Five months after the deadly attack at Club Q in Colorado Springs, the nightclub’s owners are moving forward with a planned remodel as well as a fundraising campaign to help pay for a permanent, on-site memorial honoring the victims. Documents submitted this week to the city planning department show the proposed site changes and a…