Thomas Peipert, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Hand-written messages cover the heart attached to the cross to honor a victim of the mass shooting at a gay nightclub at a makeshift memorial near the scene of the crime Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colo. The alleged shooter facing possible hate crime charges in the fatal shooting of five people at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub is scheduled to make their first court appearance Wednesday from jail after being released from the hospital a day earlier. (AP...

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Suspect in gay club shooting held without bail

by Colleen Slevin Associated Press, Thomas Peipert Associated Press, Jesse Bedayn Associated Press, and Brittany Peterson Associated PressNovember 23, 2022

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The alleged shooter facing possible hate crime charges in the fatal shooting of five people at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub was ordered held without bail in an initial court appearance Wednesday. Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22,…

Mourners stand along the makeshift memorial to the victims of a weekend mass shooting at a nearby gay nightclub on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Anderson Lee Aldrich opened fire at Club Q, in which five people were killed and others suffered gunshot wounds before patrons tackled and beat the suspect into submission. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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Nightclub shooting suspect changed name as teenager in Texas

by Thomas Peipert Associated Press, Jesse Bedayn Associated Press, and Brittany Peterson Associated PressNovember 22, 2022

Bouquets of flowers sit on a corner near the site of a mass shooting at a gay bar Monday in Colorado Springs, Colo.

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Alleged gay nightclub shooter faces murder, hate crime charges

by Thomas Peipert Associated Press, and Jesse Bedayn Associated PressNovember 21, 2022

Tyler Johnston, left, his fiance, Keenan Mestas-Holmes, center, and their friend Atlas Pretzeus hug one another while paying their respects at a makeshift memorial near Club Q on Sunday in Colorado Springs, Colo. The three have close friends who were involved in Saturday’s deadly shooting.

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Gunman, 22, kills 5 at gay Colo. club

by Thomas Peipert Associated Press, and Jesse Bedayn Associated PressNovember 20, 2022

FILE - Rabbi Ben Gorelick, measures out a precise amount Sacrament, psilocybin mushrooms, during Sacred Tribe Sacrament ceremony at the Synagogue, his home, on Nov. 6, 2021, in Denver. Colorado voters are deciding whether theirs will be the second state, after Oregon, to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms for those 21 and older. A ballot measure would create state-regulated "healing centers" for patients to experience the drug. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post via AP, File)

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Colorado voters decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms

by Thomas Peipert Associated PressNovember 11, 2022

A burned truck in a destroyed neighborhood in Louisville, Colo., on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022. Search teams looked for two missing people on Sunday in the snow-covered but still smoldering debris from a massive Colorado wildfire, while people who barely escaped the flames sorted through what was left after the blaze and investigators tried to determine its cause. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

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Two missing after Colo. fires, snowstorm

by Thomas Peipert Associated Press, Brittany Peterson Associated Press, and Eugene Garcia Associated PressJanuary 2, 2022

Police work on the scene outside of a King Soopers grocery store where authorities say multiple people were killed in a shooting, Monday, March 22, 2021, in Boulder, Colo.. (AP Photo/Joe Mahoney)

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Colorado shooting leaves 10 dead in latest mass tragedy

by Patty Nieberg Associated Press, and Thomas Peipert Associated PressMarch 23, 2021

Justin Mbelechi, 13, and Bidesh Magar, 14, roast corn at their campsite in Evergreen, Colo., Sept. 10. The two belong to a Colorado Boy Scout troop that is made up almost entirely of refugees.

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Refugee youths find safe haven in Scouts

by Thomas Peipert Associated PressJanuary 1, 2017