Video of Colorado Nightclub Attack Kept Out of Public View
U.S. News & World Report COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) Surveillance footage capturing the attack at a Colorado gay nightclub that left five people dead and 17 others wounded will not be made public until it is presented at trial, a judge ruled Friday.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys had argued that releasing the gruesome video could make it difficult to seat an impartial jury and would further traumatize the survivors while disrespecting those who were killed in the Nov. 19, 2022, shooting.
Those individuals deserve the respect of not having the last moments or the most traumatic moments of their lives broadcast and downloadable from a State of Colorado web site, Anderson Lee Aldrich's public defenders wrote in a March 2 motion.
They also argued that, unlike printed court documents, it would be too difficult to redact the video, which shows "moments of death and severe injury to several people."
Judge Michael McHenry agreed not to make the footage public because attorneys on both sides were opposed. He said he had not received any media requests to do so.
