Club shooter's 2021 bomb case dropped, family uncooperative

[Zorro]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooter had charges dropped in a 2021 bomb threat case after family members who were terrorized in the incident refused to cooperate, according to the district attorney and unsealed court documents.

The charges were dropped despite authorities a finding a tub with more than 100 pounds (45 kilograms) of explosive materials and later receiving warnings from other relatives that suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich was sure to hurt or murder a set of grandparents if freed, according to the documents, which were unsealed Thursday.

In a letter last November to state District Court Judge Robin Chittum, the relatives painted a picture of an isolated, violent person who did not have a job and was given $30,000 that was spent largely on the purchase of 3D printers to make guns. Chittum is the same judge who ruled to unseal the case Thursday.

Aldrich tried to reclaim guns seized after the threat, but authorities did not return the weapons, El Paso County District Attorney Michael Allen said. The case included allegations that Aldrich threatened to kill the grandparents in a chilling confrontation during which the suspect described plans to become the “next mass killer” more than a year before the nightclub attack that killed five people.

https://news.yahoo.com/judge-unseals-documents-gay-bar-160013089.html

[Ray Bruns]

1. Ok. I have to know who gave this guy $30,000.

What was the reason behind this?

[Wingus Dingus]

2. The shitty grandparents probably paid him off to leave them alone

after they moved to Florida to get away from him and his shitty mother.

[Midnight Writer]

3. If they found 100 pounds of explosives, does it matter if the family was "uncooperative"?

That sounds like "game over" in itself.

[former9thward]

4. Explosives are not illegal by themselves.

100 pounds or not.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. He literally had a stand off with SWAT and made, presumably to SWAT, threats of violence.

Something is seriously wrong with this story.

[old as dirt]

6. Exactly.

Are we to believe that they couldn't find any cops willing to testify?

[viva la]

10. The sheriff or police chief probably overruled -- or the judge.

"He's a nice boy from a good family," gag me.

CF the "affluenza kid," and Brock Turner, and Killer Kyle R.

Compare with, oh, Tamir Rice-- an authentically innocent CHILD who, let's say, didn't get his day in court. Wonder what the diff is.

[fescuerescue]

8. explosive material.

Could be fertilizer. could be kerosene. Could be diesel.

Could be a million other items that are perfectly legal, but in the wrong hands could be turned into something explosive.

Usually the more vague they are on the press release, the more they are trying to lever the imagination than the law.

Whatever it was, it wasn't enough evidence wise.

[Lunabell]

7. I'd say there are lawsuits to be filed.

And these idiots have bank.

[viva la]

9. Since when is a domestic violence case dropped because the family is scared?

Happens all the time that the family refuses to help. The charge is supposed to proceed anyway.
Here, it's even more true, as the whole neighborhood and all the police were threatened.

Another case of some dangerous young man getting away with violence because "he kind of looks like he could be my kid" from the sheriff or police chief.