UPDATE: Two guns were seized from Anderson Lee Aldrich after the 2021 incident, including a pistol that was a “ghost gun,” and an AR-15 rifle. The guns were not returned to Aldrich, who now stands accused of carrying out a mass shooting at Club Q.
The handling of the 2021 case, in which Aldrich is accused of threatening to blow up their mother’s home and speaking of plans for a mass shooting, has received intense scrutiny since the Club Q attack because the charges were dismissed and the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office did not use Colorado’s red flag law to stop Aldrich from buying or keeping guns.
During a news conference Thursday, Allen dismissed the idea that his office could have done more to prosecute Aldrich and potentially prevent the Club Q attack. “They didn’t cooperate, and it led to the dismissal of that case,” Allen said. “But this office absolutely prosecuted it; we prosecuted it until we couldn’t any longer.”
“As a reminder, the information initially obtained that led to the arrest and charges filed against Aldrich were over a year old by the time the charges against Aldrich and the in place were dismissed,” the news release states. Aldrich’s public defender, Joseph Archambault, objected multiple times to unsealing the case, and when Chittum ruled to, he asked for a stay of her order so he could appeal directly to the Colorado Supreme Court. The judge denied that request and allowed the unsealing to go forward immediately.
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