The shooter who killed 5 at a Colorado LGBTQ+ club pleads guilty to 50 federal hate crimes [Video]

The shooter who killed five people and injured 19 others at a nightclub in Colorado Springs pleaded guilty to 50 federal hate crime charges on Tuesday.Video above: Memorial outside of Club Q after a deadly shooting in 2022Anderson Lee Aldrich, 24, is already serving life in prison after pleading guilty to state charges in the 2022 shooting last year. Federal prosecutors have focused on proving that the attack at Club Q — a sanctuary for LGBTQ+ people in the mostly conservative city — was premeditated and fueled by bias.Aldrich entered the guilty pleas under a deal with prosecutors that allows the shooter to avoid the death penalty and instead be sentenced to multiple life sentences for the hate crimes plus a total of 190 years on gun charges and other counts.Defense attorneys in the state case, who said their client is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, argued that Aldrich was …