The Colorado Springs LGBTQ2S+ nightclub shooter had charges dropped in a 2021 bomb threat case after family members who were terrorized in the incident refused to cooperate, according to the district attorney and unsealed court documents.
The charges were dropped despite authorities a finding a tub with more than 100 pounds of explosive materials and later receiving warnings from other relatives that suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich was sure to hurt or murder a set of grandparents if freed, according to the documents, which were unsealed Thursday.
Testifying at a hearing two months after the threat, the suspect's mother and grandmother described Aldrich in court as a "loving" and "sweet" young person who did not deserve to be jailed, the prosecutor said. "We believe that my brother, and his wife, would undergo bodily harm or more if Anderson were released. Besides being incarcerated, we believe Anderson needs therapy and counselling," Robert Pullen and Jeanie Streltzoff wrote. They said Aldrich had punched holes in the walls of the grandparents' Colorado home and broken windows and that the grandparents "had to sleep in their bedroom with the door locked" and a bat by the bed.
Aldrich -- who uses they/them pronouns and is nonbinary, according to their attorneys -- holed up in their mother's home in a standoff with SWAT teams and warned about having armour-piercing rounds and a determination to "go to the end." Investigators later searched the mother's and grandparents' houses and found and seized handguns, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, body armour, magazines, a gas mask and a 12-gallon tub with explosive chemicals.
The grandparents' call to 911 led to the suspect's arrest, and Aldrich was booked into jail on suspicion of felony menacing and kidnapping. But after their bond was set at $1 million, Aldrich's mother and grandparents sought to lower the bond, which was reduced to $100,000 with conditions including therapy.
Kraus said he had text messages from Aldrich's mother saying she and the suspect were "hiding from somebody." He later found out the family had been dodging subpoenas. Aldrich's "words were, `They got nothing. There's no evidence,"' Kraus said.
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