Colorado club killer and their mother seen in new video arguing with Frontier Airlines passengers
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Alleged LGBTQ gunman Anderson Lee Aldrich of Colorado Springs and his mother have been caught on camera threatening fellow Frontier Airlines passengers after making racial slurs.
The video, first reported by KDVR, was shot by a woman named Maria Martinez after landing at Denver International Airport in July. Martinez’s voice can be heard as the video begins as she follows Aldrich and mother Laura Voepel.
Aldrich, 22, is suspected of killing five people and injuring others on Saturday at Club Q. It is revealed that Aldrich has undergone a name change and now identifies as non-binary, using pronouns.
Just before midnight, Aldrich allegedly opened fire at the popular LGBTQ nightclub Colorado Springs. They were eventually subdued by US Army veteran Richard M. Fierro, patron Thomas Jane, and a drag performer.
The club’s owners say Aldrich arrived with “massive firepower”: an AR-15 rifle, six magazines of ammunition and a handgun. Patrons used the gun Aldrich was carrying to knock them to the ground until police arrived.
In the latest video, Martinez says, “What makes ab****r?” Voepel snaps: “Shut up!” The group had just disembarked a Frontier Airlines flight.
At one point in the clip, the hulking mass murderer turns to Martinez and says, “If you keep following me, I’m going to fuck you.”
In an interview with KDVR, Maria Martinez and her daughter, Kayla, said that in the aftermath of the Club Q massacre, they immediately recognized Aldrich as one of the people they interacted with at the airport that day.
Martinez’s girlfriend, Tanya De La O, who was traveling with the Martinez family, said that as soon as their flight landed, Voepel began a racially motivated diatribe.
She said, “I was struggling to get my luggage down (from the luggage compartment), and all of a sudden I hear this woman say, ‘Hurry up.’ You bastard.’ And then I turned around and said, “Excuse me?”
When a black man intervened in an attempt to calm things down, Aldrich also got involved and told the man, “[They] also told him, “Shut the f*** up, you f*****gn****r.”‘
At one point in the clip, the hulking mass murderer turns to Martinez and says, “You keep following me and I’m going to fuck you.”
The video begins with a woman named Maria Martinez accusing Anderson Aldrich’s mother of calling her a “b****r”
In the clip, when Martinez says, “What makes ab****r?” Voepel snaps: “Shut up!”
The family said when they tried to complain to Frontier staff, they were turned down and told to contact the airline’s customer service. When they did, they were told to make a formal written complaint
Maria Martinez described the shooter’s behavior as “deeply hateful” and “evil.” She said her boyfriend told her, “We won’t be surprised if he’s a mass shooter. And it was scary to think like that’
Anderson Lee Aldrich’s mugshot after they were arrested for the Club Q massacre
Aldrich, 22, is to be held in jail without bail during a hearing on Wednesday
Martinez described the shooter’s behavior as “deeply hateful” and “evil.” She said her boyfriend told her, “We won’t be surprised if [they are ] a mass shooter. And it was scary to think like that.’
Kayla Martinez told the station, “Like just being in the presence of him, I could just feel the hate. [They] just seems [They] has hatred deep inside [their] heart.’
The family said when they tried to complain to Frontier staff, they were turned down and told to contact the airline’s customer service. When they did, they were told to make a formal written complaint.
Aldrich’s former boyfriend, Xavier Kraus, 23, told the Daily Beast that Aldrich would regularly visit a firing range where “rapid fire” was allowed. The suspect went with him to the shooting range [their] mother, Laura Voepel, the neighbor said.
Kraus also said Aldrich used homosexual slurs in times of anger and frequently used the word “f****t.”
In a separate interview with CBS News, Kraus said Aldrich admitted to using heroin and said they were addicted to opium.
During that interview, Kraus discussed the suspect’s use of homosexual slurs, saying, “It didn’t come across as real hate, like, ‘I’m going to kill these people.'”
Aaron Brink, the father of Club Q killer Anderson Lee Aldrich, said he is a ‘Mormon’ and a ‘conservative Republican’, clarifying: ‘We don’t do gay’
Meanwhile, Aldrich’s father, porn star Aaron Brink, said he is a “Mormon” and a “conservative Republican,” clarifying, “We don’t do gay.”
The adult actor from Southern California, who performed under the name Dick Delaware, has previously spoken about his addiction to meth and has been in and out of prison.
The 48-year-old, who currently works as a mixed martial arts coach and previously competed in the UFC and World Extreme Cage fights, taught his son how to fight at an early age.
The drug addict told CBS 8, “I praised him for violent behavior very early on. I told him it works. It’s direct and you get immediate results.’
Brink, who left Aldrich’s mother Laura Voepel shortly after she gave birth, has an extensive criminal past and was also seen on the reality shows Divorce Court and Intervention, when his fiancée tried to get him to stop using crystal meth.
In 2002, he was convicted of felony battery and barred from contacting his ex-wife and son, and was also sentenced to two and a half years for trafficking marijuana and subsequently violated his supervised release terms by testing positive on illegal steroids.
He said he learned of the mass shooting after a lawyer told him his son had been arrested.
He said: ‘They started telling me about the incident, a shooting involving several people.
“And then I find out it’s a gay bar. I said, “God, is he gay?” I got scared, ‘Sh*t, is he gay?’ And he’s not gay, so I said, “Phhhewww.”
Aldrich’s father went on to say that being gay was inconsistent with their religious values.
“You know Mormons don’t do gays. We don’t do gays. There are no gays in the Mormon church. We don’t do gays.’