Defense: Colorado gay club shooting suspect is nonbinary

The Associated Press ^ | November 23, 2022 | By THOMAS PEIPERT, JESSE BEDAYN and BRITTANY PETERSON

[Oldeconomybuyer]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The alleged shooter facing possible hate crime charges in the fatal shooting of five people at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub is nonbinary, the suspect’s defense team says in court filings.

In several standard motions filed on behalf of Anderson Lee Aldrich on Tuesday, public defenders refer to the suspect as “Mx. Aldrich,” noting in footnotes that Aldrich, 22, is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. The motions deal with issues like unsealing documents and evidence gathering, not Aldrich’s identity and there was no elaboration about it.

[dayglored]

> ...fruitcake that killed and maimed a bunch of other fruitcakes.

There were a number of straight folks there for the drag show, and one of the victims who was killed was the straight boyfriend of the daughter of the veteran who took down the shooter.

Check your "facts", please.

[Dubya-M-Dees]

I’m hexadecimal myself..

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[afchief]

Which means a Queer was shooting Queers?

[Deaf Smith]

>>situation where…

If non binary is the mental illness defense, this may set a precedent that any person with a gender malfunction is mentally ill.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Who cares?

[day10]

I meant to indicate it should be thought of as a mental illness and treated long ago. IOW, stop feeding this delusion.

[Tom Tetroxide]

Birds of a feather flock together.

[EEGator]

It means they’re mentally ill.

[alloysteel]

It was a lover’s spat that got out of hand. Much like the Pulse nightclub shooting a few years ago in Orlando, Florida, which was MUCH more bloody.

And screw the use of their “pronouns”. That is a vanity and posturing to claim that these people who insist on the “new way” of being addressed are being “dissed” in some not too subtle way.

XX = “she” or “her”. XY = “he” or “him”. Written in every cell of their bodies. What a quaint notion left over from the 20th Century. And just about all the centuries before that.

[glennaro]

I think it means that It is not made up of zeros and ones ... either that or that It is mentally confused if not mentally ill.

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-binary_gender

[Vision]

So can we now flog Pelosi and other depraved Democrats for blaming this on Republicans?

[EEGator]

It means they need to visit Nurse Ratched…

[Red Badger]

[EEGator]

I’m only octal…

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-binary_gender

[Red Badger]

… Is a mentally ill morbidly obese white male…

[BigEdLB]

Mutants are mutants

[Dr. Sivana]

If non binary is the mental illness defense

Plain ol' mental illness is not necessarily a defense against a criminal charge. The mental illness would have to interfere with the accused's ability to discern right from wrong, know exactly what he was doing (e.g. "God told me those people were actually soulless demons who needed killing"), or be able to control his actions (e.g. my hand pulled the revolver and shot against my will).

[Jaysin]

does binary mean he’s a card carrying member of the LGBTQ+ community?