Mom of Club Q Massacre Suspect Now Facing Charges Too

[Jilly_in_VA]

The mother of the suspect accused of fatally gunning down five people and wounding 18 at a Colorado Springs gay bar was herself arrested in the hours after the deadly shooting, according to a summons obtained by The Daily Beast.

Laura Lea Voepel, 45, is facing two misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest over a meltdown she allegedly had when police showed up at her home around 3:30 a.m. on Nov. 20. Roughly three-and-a-half hours earlier, authorities say 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich opened fire on patrons and staff at Club Q, a local LGBTQ nightspot.

Aldrich, whose lawyers say he identifies as non-binary but whose mother used male pronouns in text messages to him on the day of the shooting, was born Nicholas Franklin Brink in 2000 to Voepel and MMA-fighter-turned-porn-actor Aaron Franklin Brink. The 6-foot-4, 260-pound Aldrich, who is listed as male in jail booking records, changed their name in 2016 to escape their father’s criminal past, court filings show.

After the Club Q massacre, officers with the Colorado Springs Police Department showed up at Voepel’s North Union Boulevard apartment building, the summons states, noting that cops warned Voepel “multiple times to stop yelling” or she would be arrested.

“Subject continued to make unreasonable noise directly next to multiple apartments,” the summons, which was first reported by Denver Fox affiliate KDVR and Denver NBC affiliate KUSA, continues. “While I attempted to place subject into custody, she became combative by physically resisting officers’ control by force.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/laura-voepel-mom-of-colorado-springs-suspect-anderson-lee-aldrich-facing-charges-after-club-q-shooting

Looks to me like the shooter was born with about 4 strikes against him. Lousy genes all around.

[magicarpet]

1. How they say,...

... shallow end of the gene pool,...

.... and the water was rancid & polluted too.

[Runningdawg]

2. The hate and violence are generational.

[gratuitous]

3. I've known some folks who have gone through some things

None of them shot up a nightclub, though. But as long as it's easier to get a gun than to get mental health treatment, our society has determined that we will continue to have these mass shootings.

[maxsolomon]

4. 3:30 am, the cops show up and tell her that her troubled son

is now a mass murderer. I'm not going to judge her too harshly for melting down.

odds are pretty good these charges get dismissed.