Colorado club killer’s porn star dad worried his son was gay when he first heard of massacre

MMA fighter and porn actor Aaron Franklin Brink said he was relieved to learn his son “isn’t gay” after learning the 22-year-old son was accused of slaughtering five people and injuring 18 others in a mass shooting. shooting at a gay club.

A defense attorney had called Brink, who lives in Southern California, to tell him that Anderson Lee Aldrich had been arrested for the Club Q massacre.

“They started telling me about the incident, a shooting involving several people,” Brink said CBS8.

“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.’

The Mormon Church has confirmed that although Aldrich was a member, he has not been active for some time, The Daily Beast reported.

In court documents filed Tuesday, lawyers for Aldrich, who changed his name from Nicholas Franklin Brink in 2016 to escape his father’s past, said Aldrich identifies as non-binary.

“They use, they/them pronouns,” the court documents read.

Text messages shown to the Daily Beast by a source close to Aldrich show their mother referring to her son as “he and him.”

A person who claimed to be a relative but answered a phone number given to Brink’s wife told the outlet that they are “taking it one day at a time.”

“There’s really nothing to do after all is said and done,” she said.

Aldirch reportedly opened fire on Club Q shortly before midnight on November 19 before being subdued by two bystanders.

Aldrich was initially hospitalized with nonspecific injuries but was transferred to the El Paso County Jail on Tuesday, according to authorities.

Relatives of Aldrich who wished to remain unnamed told The Daily Beast that they are “totally disgusted.”

“I don’t want anything to do with that part of the family,” the relative said.

“They’ve always had problems, lots of problems. I’m totally disgusted with that side of the family now.’

In Brink’s interview with CBS 8, he apologized for his son’s alleged actions, saying there was “no excuse to start killing people.”

“If you’re killing people, something’s wrong, it’s not the answer,” he said.

At the same time, Brink, a recovering methamphetamine user, praised “his son’s violent behavior.”

“I told him it works, it’s instant and you get immediate results,” he said.

Brink told the broadcaster that he did not know that his son was still alive.

He claims Aldrich’s mother, Laura Voepel, called him in 2016 to say their son had changed their name and then committed suicide.

“I thought he was dead,” Brink said.

“I mourned his loss. I had gone through a meltdown and thought I had lost my son.

‘His mother told me he changed his name because I was in Intervention [a reality tv show] and had been a porn actor.’

Brink found out his son was still alive six months ago when Aldrich called him out of the blue.

The two hadn’t spoken for six years, but the conversation quickly turned into a fight, Brink said.

“He’s angry,” says Brink, who describes himself in the interview as a conservative Republican.

‘He’s mad at me. He wants to poke the old man.’

The Club Q shooting isn’t the first time Aldrich has been linked to violent behaviour.

Last year, Aldrich was arrested after police said he threatened to blow up the house in Colorado Springs where his mother had lived.

The charges were later dropped.

This meant that Colorado’s red flag laws, which would have allowed authorities to seize Aldrich’s guns, were not triggered.

Instead, the gun used in the Club Q shooting was believed to have been purchased legally, according to Good Morning America.

Brink, who served time in federal prison for marijuana importation in the late 1990s, said he still loves his son despite the allegations.

“I’m sorry for your loss,” he told CBS 8.

“Life is so fragile and precious. Those people’s lives were valuable. You know, they are valuable.

They’re probably good people. It’s not something you kill someone for. I’m sorry I let my son down.’