Gay bar shooting suspect ‘had threatened to become next mass killer’

Gay bar shooting suspect ‘had threatened to become next mass killer’
Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, sits during a court appearance in Colorado Springs (El Paso County District Court via AP/PA)

A judge has unsealed a dropped bomb threat case against the Colorado gay bar shooting suspect who threatened to become the “next mass killer” over a year before allegedly killing five people and wounding 17 others.

Judge Robin Chittum said the “profound” public interest in the case outweighed the privacy rights of defendant Anderson Lee Aldrich. The judge added that scrutiny of judicial cases is “foundational to our system of government”.

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