The father of Anderson Lee Aldrich, the man accused of carrying out the massacre that left 5 dead and 18 injured at Club Q in Colorado over the weekend, told CBS8 that his first reaction was to ask what her son was doing in a gay bar.
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Aaron Brink, a former mixed martial arts fighter-turned-porn actor who has had a lot of run-ins with the law, told CBS 8 he believed his son had been dead for six months when he received the call from investigators following the killings.
Brink first lost contact with his son, whom he believed to be dead following his ex-wife informed him in 2016 that his son Nicholas had changed his name to Anderson to distance himself from his father. But six months ago he received a call from his child, and the two argued on the phone, he said, citing his son’s frustration.
The Mormon father told CBS he wondered why his son went to a gay bar.
“You know Mormons aren’t gay. We don’t have gays. There are no gays in the Mormon Church,” exclaimed Aaron Brink.
The ex-trainer of AMM, who has already been convicted of assaulting his ex-spouse, also indicated that he had already congratulated his son for his violent behavior when he taught him to fight.
The man still felt sorry for the victims, apologizing to their families and saying “there are no excuses for killing people.”
“I am sorry for your losses. Life is so fragile and precious. The lives of these people were precious. You know, they had value. They were good people, probably. It’s not something you kill someone for. I’m sorry for letting my son down,” Aaron Brink said.
The suspect, Anderson Lee Aldrich, identifies as non-binary, his attorney said during a brief appearance Wednesday. He has still not pleaded guilty or not guilty to the crimes with which he is charged.
The suspect’s mother, Laura Voepel, is the daughter of Randy Voepel, a Republican who compared the January 6, 2021, uprising on Capitol Hill as “the first shots fired once morest tyranny,” US media reported.
