![]() Though I didn’t see anything, these rounds haunt me in every moment of my life. ![]() “All I could hear were the gunshots and the music that continued to play,” Delusional said in a statement. Then the performer walked backstage - and caught the sound of gunfire. ![]() His friend from second grade, Kassandra Fierro, was also in the club with her parents and long-term boyfriend, Raymond Green Vance, whom Wyatt had also become friendly with in the six years the couple had been dating.ĭelusional, the night’s drag show producer and host, came on stage, called out birthday wishes and proclaimed happiness at having the opportunity to perform for such a crowd at such a venue. Wyatt Kent, a patron and performer, was there celebrating his birthday. “Derrick was so unbelievably selfless he would give you the shirt off his back, his last dollar, his last bit of food, and he would expect nothing in return, even if that meant he would be without.”Īs Derrick, Daniel and Michael slung drinks, among the customers was regular Edward Sanders, who’d been coming to Club Q for decades. whether they needed a shoulder to cry on, a listening ear or just someone to be there, Derrick would take on so much weight for others just to see them shine again,” his cousin said Monday in an audio message played in court. The Illinois mother felt like she knew the pair, whose loyalty, generosity and compassion were famous among their friends and family. They’d often promise to keep Ashtin safe as they shouted to her mother over the phone when Cheryl Norton called to chat with her daughter. Both, like so many in Colorado, were transplants from other states Daniel, 28, hailed from Oklahoma, while Derrick, 38, had come all the way from Pennsylvania. ![]() Michael, behind the bar, had been most concerned on 19 November about whether to take an Uber after shift or drive himself home as he worked alongside Daniel and Derrick. Aldrich pleaded guilty this week to charges including five counts of murder and 46 counts of attempted murder, and many of the same Club Q patrons from that tragic night of 19 November 2022 found themselves again breathing the same air as the person whose hate-filled actions forever changed their lives and community.Īnderson Lee Aldrich pleads guilty to 53 charges for killing five in Club Q shooting She thought about the school massacre in Uvalde.Īshtin recounted all of this exactly seven months and seven days after Aldrich opened fire at Club Q, killing Daniel and Derrick along with Kelly Loving, 40 Ashley Paugh, 35 and Raymond Green Vance, 22. As Aldrich continued the relentless attack, Ashtin covered herself in her friend’s blood and buried her head into his body, playing dead. The next time Ashtin would see Aldrich’s lumbering figure, bullets would be tearing through her body, despite Daniel’s valiant efforts to save her by standing between Ashtin and the shooter. Ashtin had become close with her coworkers, particularly bar staff Daniel Aston, 28, and Derrick Rump, 38, who were working that night alongside Michael Anderson. She joked as she struggled with the wristband for Anderson Lee Aldrich before all 280 pounds of the 22-year-old disappeared into the crowd, where families, friends and lovers gathered happily to celebrate birthdays and enjoy a drag performance.Īldrich walked among them, watching as they socialised, Club Q’s beloved bartenders serving up drinks and banter amidst the merriment and music. ![]() Ashtin Gamblin was working the door at Club Q last November, wearing a hoodie, when she let in a huge, 6’4” patron for that Saturday night’s festivities in the hopping Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ hotspot. ![]()
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