22 year old gunman Accused of killing 5 and injuring 17 at LGBTQ bar in Colorado Springs Changed his name as a teenager to remove all links to his estranged father.
Anderson Lee AldrichBorn Nicholas Franklin Brink, who is pre-indicted on 10 criminal charges, including first-degree murder. According to court documents obtained by The Daily Beast,His biological father, Aaron Franklin Brink, left home when Nicholas was a baby, according to relatives who wished to remain anonymous.
“The minor wants to protect his future from himself + his biological father + his criminal record,” said Aldrich, still almost exactly a month before Nicholas Brink turned 16. , said a notarized affidavit filed in a Texas court. For several years. ”
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A handwritten petition to change Aldrich’s name, dated April 2016, was filed in Bexar County, where he and his mother, Laura Voepel, lived at the time. It was signed by Voepel. Aldrich’s biological grandmother Pamela Pullen. Stepgrandfather Jonathan Pullen. and his father Aaron F. Brink, who was listed as living in San Diego County, California. The filing shows that Pullens was Aldrich’s legal guardian at the time. first reported by Washington Post.
Ramon Molina, the attorney who handled the case, told the Daily Beast on Tuesday that there was nothing special about the petition and that “no one really remembers” Aldrich. On Tuesday, he called a number listed for Aaron Franklin Brink, but was answered by a man who refused to reveal his identity, said Brink wasn’t there, and promptly hung up. rice field.
But a family member said Voepel and Aldrich “always had a lot of trouble” and Brink, 48, “never got involved with him and was rarely with him.” Voepel said she was charged with arson in 2012, but she later admitted to her criminal activities. Her public record is littered with other non-violent arrests in Voepel’s past.
“I want nothing to do with that part of the family,” said a relative who told The Daily Beast on condition of anonymity. … I am totally fed up with that side of the family right now.”
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Minutes before midnight on November 19, Aldrich allegedly opened fire on patrons and staff at LGBTQ nightspot Club Q. Aldrich was hospitalized with unspecified injuries after his arrest, but was transferred to the El Paso County Jail on Tuesday, officials said.
last year, Aldrich arrested after police threatened to blow up his Colorado Springs home The place where Vopel rented a room. The charges were later dropped. On Monday, Colorado Springs District Attorney Michael J. Allen said state law prevented him from revealing details of the incident or why Colorado’s red flag laws were not triggered by the episode. (Weapons used in Club Q shooting were legally purchased and according to reports.)
“He should have gotten at least some kind of jail time,” a Voepel landlord told the Daily Beast. It’s a pity that I didn’t take over.
Aldrich’s father’s name and the county in California he lived in in the name change petition exactly match the name of porn star-turned-MMA fighter Aaron Brink, who also has a middle name. Sharing Franklin with the shooter. To public data and federal court records. (A woman who answered a phone number linked to Blink on Monday and identified herself as her girlfriend claimed she had no children.)
brink Incarcerated in federal prison for importing marijuana in 1996Then, when he was released in 1998, he went on to establish a career as a mixed martial arts fighter. He soon met Tito Ortiz, an MMA star and interim mayor of Huntington Beach, California. who got him into the sport United States of America todayof Reported by MMA Junkie Blog.
Porn star Dick Delaware at the 2006 Adult Entertainment Expo.
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