AP News By JIM MUSTIAN and JESSE BEDAYN
The suspect in a mass shooting at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub is expected to strike a plea deal to state murder and hate charges that would ensure at least a life sentence for the attack that killed five people and wounded 17, several survivors told The Associated Press.
Word of a possible legal resolution of last yearâs Club Q massacre follows a series of jailhouse phone calls from the suspect to the AP expressing remorse and the intention to face the consequences at the next scheduled court hearing this month.
âI have to take responsibility for what happened,â 23-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich said in their first public comments about the case…
