Club Q shooter Anderson Lee Aldrich and his mother Laura Voepel were caught making racist slurs in a video
The Colorado gunman Anderson Lee Aldrichโs mother Laura Voepel is in the limelight these days. Aldrich carried out a mass shooting at a gay club known as Club Q in Colorado on Saturday, 19th November on the eve of the Transgender Day of Remembrance. A total of 5 people died in the attack, which has been investigated as a hate crime.
Know Who Is Laura Voepel Mother Of Anderson Lee Aldrich Club Q Colorado Shooter
This is the last thing Laura Voepel posted before her kid committed the Club Q mass shooting. โBest night everโโฆ theyโre treating killing queer and trans people like a game. pic.twitter.com/2Tcyds9ZhK
— Eli Erlick (@EliErlick) November 23, 2022
Laura Voepel is active LDS according to posts and her son was also LDS but not as active due to mental health.
So yes, the family is LDS & also Republican who are or were trump supporters.
I hope this 22yr old TALKS because I think something is up in this family. https://t.co/SYszKdb2uv
— CJ @[email protected] (@CJsSayingIt) November 21, 2022
Aldrich is in police custody currently. The 22-year-old was tackled by at least 2 heroic patrons during attack. Apart from these 5 people who died, another 25 were badly injured. Aldrich had earlier been arrested in June of 2021 for a bomb threat, but they were formally never charged.
Who is Laura Voepel?
After the shooting, cell phone video surfaced of a Frontier Airlines passenger, showing Aldrich and Voepel in a heated confrontation with other passengers on 31st July. The video was taken by Maria Martinez of Aurora, who stated, โAldrich is known for her a racial slur used against Hispanics. After calling her by that name, Martinez began filming Aldrich and Voepel as they exited the plane.โ
Aldrich was wearing a face mask at that time, Martinez claiming that she and her daughter Kayla recognized them as the person now charged with the Colorado shooting. Tanya De La O, a friend of Martinez’s who was traveling with them, stated, โit was Voepel who started using racist language.โ
Laura Voepel Arrest And Family
Laura Voepel got arrested in 2008 for false reports, in 2010 for speeding and failing to appear in court, in 2011 for driving under influence in the Golden State. Voepel was also arrested in Riverside in 2008 for public intoxication and failure to appear in court, but it is unclear if the arrest was similar to the false report. The intoxication case was reportedly at the end.
Voepel was sentenced to 5 years probation in one case in 2013, but it is unclear what the incident was. She failed to serve the term, which was set to expire in 2018, the New York Post reports stated.
Aldrich’s father Aaron Franklin Brink is reportedly an ex-con former MMA fighter who later on turned to a porn star. He also has a criminal history which includes assault convictions against Voepel. After 2002 assault conviction in California, a protective order was issued that initially prohibited Brink from contacting the suspect or his mother except through an attorney. Moreover, that order was later on modified for allowing supervised visits with the child.