Colorado shooting

The suspect accused of entering a Colorado gay nightclub clad in body armour and opening fire with an Ar15-style rifle, killing five people and wounding 17 others, was charged by prosecutors yesterday with 305 criminal counts including hate crimes and murder. The counts against Anderson Lee Aldrich include 48 hate crime charges, one for each person known to have been in the club at the time of the shooting. Investigators say Aldrich, 22, entered Club Q just before midnight on November 19 and began shooting during a drag queen’s birthday celebration. The killing stopped after patrons wrestled the suspect to the ground, beating

Aldrich into submission, they said.