The Club Q shooter will serve the rest of their life in prison, for killing five people and wounding 17 others with gunfire in November 2022. They pleaded guilty on June 26, 2023, closing one chapter for victims and their families, although the federal government is still investigating whether to file hate crimes charges, which could result in the death penalty.
In this audio segment, Colorado Matters brings you the voices of a few of the people who lost family members in the shooting — and some who were in the club themselves that night — who spoke after the hearing where the shooter pleaded guilty and received a sentence of thousands of years in prison.