The perpetrator of the shooting that left five people dead and at least 18 injured last weekend at an LGBT club in Colorado, in the western United States, appeared in court on Wednesday.
Anderson Lee Aldrich remained seated, dressed in the orange jumpsuit of detainees in the United States, during a brief video appearance during the hearing during which no charges were pronounced.
Nor did the defendant enter into a plea or not-guilty process.
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Anderson Lee Aldrich was flanked by two court-appointed attorneys, who claimed in court documents filed Tuesday that their client identified as non-binary and used the gender-neutral pronouns in English “they/them.”
The accused spoke only to confirm his name and that his rights had indeed been pronounced.
Anderson Lee Aldrich has not been formally charged but is being held on suspicion of murder.
According to the Colorado court system, the indictment should not be handed down for 10 days.
The perpetrator of the shooting could be prosecuted, among other things, for murder and hate crimes, and faces a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
The hearing came four days after the massacre that left five people 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.