The suspect in a mass shooting at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub is expected to strike a plea deal to state murder and hate charges that would ensure at least a life sentence for the attack that killed five people and wounded 17, several survivors told The Associated Press.
Word of a possible legal resolution of last November's Club Q massacre follows a series of jailhouse phone calls from suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich to the AP expressing remorse and the intention to face the consequences at the next scheduled court hearing this month.
The U.S. Justice Department is still considering filing federal hate crime charges, according to a senior law enforcement official familiar with the matter who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing case. It's unclear whether the anticipated resolution to the state prosecution will also resolve the ongoing FBI investigation.
Asked why it happened, they said, "I don't know. That's why I think it's so hard to comprehend that it did happen. ... I'm either going to get the death penalty federally or I will go to prison for life, that's a given." "Someone's gone that can never be brought back through the justice system," said Wyatt Kent, who was celebrating his 23rd birthday in Club Q when Aldrich opened fire, gunning down Kent's partner, Daniel Aston, who was working behind the bar. "We are all still missing a lot, a partner, a son, a daughter, a best friend."The suspect walked into Club Q just before midnight on Nov. 19 and fired an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle indiscriminately.
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