He emphasized that Aldrich didn’t get any concessions in the plea agreement - sentenced to the maximum of five consecutive life sentences plus 2,208 additional years for the 46 counts of attempted murder. When asked whether the attack was motivated by hate, Aldrich said that was “completely off base.”ĭistrict Attorney Allen said Aldrich knew exactly what they were doing during the attack and had drawn diagrams in advance indicating the best way to carry it out. But they did not answer directly regarding the hate crimes charges.

19 when the suspect walked into Club Q and indiscriminately fired an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle.Īldrich told AP in one of the interviews from jail they were on a “very large plethora of drugs” and abusing steroids at the time of the attack. Survivors spoke about how their lives were forever altered just before midnight on Nov. Relatives and friends of victims were able to give statements in court Monday to remember their loved ones. The killings rekindled memories of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. “Like too many other people in our culture, you chose to find a power that day behind the trigger of a gun, your actions reflect the deepest malice of the human heart, and malice is almost always born of ignorance and fear.” ‘You are targeting a group of people for their simple existence,” McHenry said. Judge Michael McHenry also issued a stern rebuke of Aldrich’s actions, connecting it to societal woes. People in the courtroom wiped away tears as the judge explained the charges and read out the names of the victims. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

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