![]() FALLON/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images The port, North America's busiest container terminal, began 24-hour operations Octoafter the White House intervened to help ease bottlenecks that are choking commerce and pushing up prices. and Port of Long Beach on Octoas seen before sunrise from Signal Hill, California. Voepel had taken Aldrich to the range.TOPSHOT - Cargo shipping container ships wait in the Pacific Ocean to enter the Port of Los Angeles. In Aldrich’s mother’s room, they found round gun range targets with holes in them, Gasper said. Hate crime laws are focused on the victims, not the perpetrator.Īt Aldrich’s apartment, investigators found gun-making materials, receipts for weapons and a drawing of the club. A state law passed after the 2012 Aurora, Colorado, theater shooting bans magazines of more than 15 rounds.Īlthough Aldrich identifies as nonbinary, someone who is a member of a protected group such as the LGBTQ community can still be charged with a hate crime for targeting peers. Police found several high-capacity magazines at the scene, including a drum-style one that holds 60 rounds and was empty, and others that hold 40 rounds, Gasper said. Officers didn’t believe it and shortly afterward confirmed that Aldrich was the shooter, he said. ![]() Aldrich fired at least once, shooting James in the ribs, Gardner said.Īfter being shot, it is clear from the video that James was tiring, “but he continues to do what he can to subdue the suspect until police arrive,” Gardner testified, noting that James later gave up his spot in an ambulance to someone else who was injured.Īfter the gunfire ended and police arrived, Aldrich tried to blame the shooting on one of the patrons who subdued them while also claiming that the shooter was hiding, Officer Connor Wallick testified. The shooting was stopped when Navy information systems technician Thomas James grabbed the barrel of Aldrich’s rifle, burning his hand it was so hot, Detective Ashton Gardner said in the most detailed account provided yet.Īs panicked patrons fled from the dance floor, James and Aldrich tumbled off a landing and struggled over a handgun. Soon after entering, Aldrich allegedly opened fire indiscriminately. Surveillance video showed Aldrich entering the club wearing a red T-shirt and tan ballistic vest while holding an AR-style rifle, with six magazines for the weapon and a pistol visible, police Detective Jason Gasper said. On the night of the shooting, according to authorities, Aldrich went to the club, left and then returned. Investigators also heard from an acquaintance that Aldrich said their mother, Laura Voepel, is nonbinary and forced them to go to LGBTQ clubs, Joines testified during the hearing, which is expected to conclude Thursday. Joines said she believes Aldrich was trying to emulate those attacks in the Colorado Springs shooting. The video, which she said was not created by Aldrich and has been posted online by many others, featured attacks on synagogues and mosques in Europe and the 2019 shooting at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Her testimony came at the start of a hearing that will determine if there’s enough evidence to warrant that Aldrich face hate crime charges, in addition to other charges including murder and attempted murder.Īldrich, who identifies as nonbinary and uses the pronouns they and them, administered the obscure website that included what Joines described as a “neo-Nazi white supremacist” shooting training video glorifying mass shootings. ![]() (AP) - The 22-year-old accused of carrying out the deadly mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs in November ran a neo-Nazi website and used gay and racial slurs while gaming online, a police detective testified Wednesday.Īnderson Lee Aldrich also posted an image of a rifle scope trained on a gay pride parade and used a bigoted slur when referring to someone who was gay, Detective Rebecca Joines said.
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