‘Next mass killer’: Dropped case foretold Colorado bloodbath


              Jerecho Loveall, 30, stands for a portrait his home Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Loveall, who is recovering from a wound to the leg from one of the high-powered rounds in the Nov. 19 mass shooting at Club Q, says, “If they would have taken this more seriously and done their job, the lives we lost, the injuries we sustained and the trauma this community has faced would not have happened.” (AP Photo/Jim Mustian)
            
              Jerecho Loveall, 30, stands for a portrait his home Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Loveall, who is recovering from a wound to the leg from one of the high-powered rounds in the Nov. 19 mass shooting at Club Q, says, “If they would have taken this more seriously and done their job, the lives we lost, the injuries we sustained and the trauma this community has faced would not have happened.” (AP Photo/Jim Mustian)
            
              Jerecho Loveall, 30, stands for a portrait his home Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Loveall, who is recovering from a wound to the leg from one of the high-powered rounds in the Nov. 19 mass shooting at Club Q, says, “If they would have taken this more seriously and done their job, the lives we lost, the injuries we sustained and the trauma this community has faced would not have happened.” (AP Photo/Jim Mustian)
            
              Jerecho Loveall, 30, stands for a portrait his home Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Loveall, who is recovering from a wound to the leg from one of the high-powered rounds in the Nov. 19 mass shooting at Club Q, says, “If they would have taken this more seriously and done their job, the lives we lost, the injuries we sustained and the trauma this community has faced would not have happened.” (AP Photo/Jim Mustian)
            
              A couple hug at a makeshift memorial Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colo., for the victims of a mass shooting last weekend at Club Q, a gay nightclub. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
            
              A man places a rose at a cross, part of the makeshift memorial for the victims of a mass shooting at Club Q, a gay nightclub, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
            
              Buckets of flowers sit near the crosses for the victims at a makeshift memorial for a mass shooting over the weekend at a gay nightclub Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
            
              Crosses stand at a makeshift memorial for the victims of a mass shooting over the weekend at a gay nightclub Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
            
              Visitors hug while looking over a makeshift memorial near the scene of a mass shooting at a gay nightclub 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 Photo/David Zalubowski)
            
              FILE - This booking photo provided by the Colorado Springs, Colo., Police Department shared via Twitter shows Anderson Lee Aldrich. Aldrich, the suspect accused of entering a gay nightclub clad in body armor and opening fire with an AR-15-style rifle, killing five people and wounding 17 others, is set to appear in court again Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022, to learn what charges prosecutors will pursue in the attack, including possible hate crime counts. (Colorado Springs Police Department via AP, File)
            
              FILE- Photographs of victims of a mass shooting at a nearby gay nightclub are on display at a memorial on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colo. The suspect accused of entering the club clad in body armor and opening fire with an AR-15-style rifle, killing five people and wounding 17 others, is set to appear in court again Tuesday, Dec. 6 to learn what charges prosecutors will pursue in the attack, including possible hate crime counts. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
            
              Dallas Dutka of Broomfield, Colo., prays by a makeshift memorial, Tuesday Nov. 22, 2022, for the victims of a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo. Dutka's cousin, Daniel Aston, was killed in the shooting. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
‘Next mass killer’: Dropped case foretold Colorado bloodbath