Anderson Lee Aldrich made a brief video appearance in court on Wednesday. The defendant remained seated, dressed in the orange jumpsuit of detainees in the United States during the hearing during which no charges were pronounced.
Anderson Lee Aldrich also did not enter a plea or not-guilty proceeding. His two court-appointed lawyers said in documents filed Tuesday that their client identifies as non-binary, that is to say, does not recognize himself in either the masculine or feminine gender.
They added that Anderson Lee Aldrich used genderless pronouns in Englishthey/them“,”text”:”they/them”}}”>they/them (iel
in French).
The accused spoke only to confirm his name and that he had been notified of his rights. He is being held on suspicion of murder. According to the Colorado court system, the indictment should not be handed down for 10 days.
Other details have emerged, including his childhood marked by instability and drug-addicted parents. According to US media, his birth name was Nicholas Brink and he was only 2 years old when his parents separated.
When he took the name Anderson Lee Aldrich as a teenager, his father, Aaron Franklin Brink, had already been arrested several times in California for drug possession and traffic violations.
Aaron Brink, who describes himself as a former porn actor turned conservative Republican, told a local San Diego newspaper that his ex-wife, Laura Voepel, assured him several years ago that their child was dead.
This is what he believed until a few months ago, when he received a phone call from Anderson Lee Aldrich which degenerated into an argument, the latter uttering threats against his father. .
Mr. Brink had praised Anderson Lee Aldrich for his violent behavior as a child, he told CBS. I told him it worked. It’s instant and you have immediate results
he said.
No Gays in the Mormon Church
Aaron Brink also told the New York Times that he had expressed strong disapproval of homosexuals when her child was younger
.
There are no gays in the Mormon Church
assured CBS Mr. Brink, who however expressed compassion for the victims of the Colorado Springs massacre.
Laura Voepel, the defendant’s mother, also had trouble with the California police, including for drunkenness on public roads and possession of illicit substances, according to the New York Times.
In 2012, she was given a suspended sentence for setting fire to a mattress in the psychiatric hospital where she had been admitted, according to court documents cited by the Times.
Anderson Lee Aldrich could be prosecuted in particular for murders and hate crimes, and faces a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
The hearing came four days after the massacre that left 5 dead and 18 injured at Club Q in Colorado Springs, a city in the Rocky Mountains of about 500,000 people.
A tentative date for a reappearance of Anderson Lee Aldrich has been set for December 6.