Crime Club Q suspect and mother accused of verbally attacking airplane passengers with racial slurs months before the Colorado shooting

In June 2021, police responded to a call that Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, threatened his mother with a homemade bomb, which prompted a bomb squad and crisis negotiators in June 2021, The Associated Press reported.

Authorities and family members did not choose to trigger Colorado's red flag laws, however, and formal charges were never brought against Aldrich at the time.

The AP reported that the gun restraining measure is infrequently used in Colorado and in particular El Paso County, where the suspected shooter faces murder and hate crime charges in  the shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ club.

Before he was charged for the deadly Highland Park Fourth of July parade shooting in Illinois, Robert Crimo III attempted suicide on April 2019, resulting in a visit from local police officers. Family members assured authorities that he would receive help for his mental health, according to The Chicago Tribune.

Five months after his suicide attempt, the shooting suspect made threats to kill people, The Tribune reported. Officers confiscated 16 knives, a dagger, and a sword from his residence. There were no guns. The suspect did not yet have a permit to purchase one.

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A few months later, he secured a permit through a sponsorship signed off by his father.

Law enforcement said after the shooting that they could not have used the state's red flag law, which allows authorities to petition to strip away someone's guns. There was no permit to revoke since the suspect did not have one.

Additionally, no complaints were filed against him by family members and law enforcement to prevent the suspect from getting his application approved.

The suspect purchased five weapons between 2020 and 2021, including one that was used in the attack that killed seven people and injured dozens more.

Payton Gendron is suspected of killing 10 people in a racist assault against Black people at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store.

In 2021, the shooting suspect was said to have received a mental health evaluation after making threats at his high school — comments he initially explained as a joke, according to The New York Times. Online postings revealed that the suspect lied to evaluators: "That is the reason I believe I am still able to purchase guns. It was not a joke," he wrote, according to The Times.

Law enforcement did not use the state's red flag law for the 18-year-old shooting suspect. In New York, relatives, school officials, and law enforcement are able to petition for a gun restraining order.

The shooting suspect passed an instant background check and purchased a semiautomatic rifle used in the attack.

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Reports that Anderson Aldrich is non-binary have sparked outrage. The 22-year-old suspect has allegedly killed 5 people and injured 19 others in a shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs on Nov. 19. In a court filing, his attorneys have said that the suspect, who's facing multiple murder and hate crime charges is non-binary and that "they use they/them pronouns".

Shortly after the shooting, Gov. Kathy Hochul expanded the state's red flag law to require state police to use the measure whenever there is "probable cause" that an individual may be a threat to themselves or others and to allow for mental health practitioners to use the law.

Less than a year before eight people were killed at a FedEx facility, the mother of Brandon Hole, the gunman, went to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department on March 2020, seeking help after her son purchased a weapon, struck her in the arm, and told her that he was going to shoot police officers. He also mentioned suicidal thoughts, according to an ABC news report.

At his home, police found that the shooter was browsing white supremacist websites and seized a brand new shotgun from the property. The 18-year-old at the time was placed in a mental health detention center and later transported to a local hospital.

Just like Richard Fierro in Colorado Springs, data shows that 64 unarmed civilians have apprehended the gunman in mass shootings since 2000

Recent data conducted by Texas State University and the FBI show that over 50 unarmed civilians have apprehended gunmen in mass shootings since 2000.The army veteran had been sitting at a table inside the club with his wife and daughter the night of Saturday, November 19 when a gunman entered and opened fire, killing five people and injuring eighteen. After hearing bullets, Fierro ran directly towards the shooter, who has now been identified as 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich, pulled him down, and beat him with his own gun before police arrived on the scene.

A red flag law hearing was not held for the shooter because law enforcement said there was not enough time to build a successful case that the shooter's guns needed to be confiscated, according to The Associated Press.

Indiana's red flag law, which was enacted in 2005, was amended in 2019 to require courts to hold a hearing in 14 days and that an affidavit be filed with the court in 48 hours.

Four months after the incident, the shooter legally purchased an assault rifle and another one two months later. The shooter killed eight people before killing himself.

Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa was known to have a temper and became increasingly "paranoid" a few years before authorities alleged he killed 10 people at a Boulder, Colorado grocery store, according to a CNN report.

In 2018, he was placed on a one-year probation for attacking a high school classmate. Because the incident was a misdemeanor and not a felony, it did not prevent the shooting suspect from purchasing a weapon legally under Colorado law, which includes a universal background check and a red flag law.

A city ordinance banning assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines was struck down by a judge just days before the shooting, according to U.S. News.

Zephen Xaver was 21 at the time he was charged with five counts of first-degree murder after the shooting at a Sun Trust Bank branch in Sebring, Florida.

When he was a student at Bremen High School, the shooting suspect was sent to a mental health center after he told his school counselor that he had dreams of killing students, according to CNN. In March 2017, the Bremen Police Department was contacted after a female student received messages from the shooting suspect, stating that he was "possibly thinking of suicide by cop" and "taking hostages."

The shooting suspect purchased a gun six days before the incident.

It's unclear why authorities did not seek what's known in Florida as a "risk protection order" for the shooting suspect. Under state law, law enforcement officials are the only ones who can petition to confiscate someone's guns.

Ian David Long, 28, was a Marine veteran who received a visit from a mental health specialist and local sheriff's deputies just months before he carried out a deadly attack at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California.

The specialist found that he may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, but ultimately did not determine that the shooter needed to be involuntarily admitted under state law, according to CNN.

The perpetrator killed 13 people, including himself with a self-influencted gunshot wound, and injured dozens more on November 7, 2018, using a legally purchased .45-caliber pistol and extended magazine.

Law enforcement did not utilize the state's red flag law at the time. The law was later expanded to allow employers, co-workers and teachers to petition a judge to confiscate firearms.

Nikolas Cruz, who faces the death penalty for his attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, was involved in 18 incidents in which the sheriff's office had to respond to calls at the suspect's residence.

Family members, classmates, and neighbors all expressed concerns about the shooter.

He was expelled from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and, after he started to cut himself and post images of self-harm on social media, was approached by the Florida Department of Children and Families. The department concluded that he has depression but presented no risk of harm to himself and others, according to NPR.

The FBI was also warned of the shooter in two separate tips notifying the agency that he had intentions to carry out a school shooting. The FBI would later say that "protocols were not followed," NPR reported.

The perpetrator legally purchased a rifle from a licensed dealer on February 2017. Florida's red flag law allows only law enforcement to petition for guns to be confiscated.