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A Wednesday morning briefing by police on the Chesapeake, Virginia mass shooting at the local Walmart revealed further details about the incident.

In addition to the information revealed by police, WAVY-TV News and VICE are both reporting on some accounts posted on social media by people who say they were in the store during the shooting.

At least seven people, including the gunman, were killed late Tuesday evening at a Walmart store in southeast Virginia.

Chesapeake police responded to the shooting at the retailer on Sam's Circle about 10:12 p.m. and found multiple victims dead inside the store and others wounded, reported NBC News.

In a footnote in a legal filing, attorneys representing the man accused of murdering five people and wounding 18 at the Club Q nightclub in Colorado Springs revealed that their client identifies as nonbinary.

"Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, was turned over to sheriff’s officers at the jail by Colorado Springs police. Aldrich had been detained at the hospital, according to police, and is facing 10 arrest-only charges — five counts of first-degree murder and five counts of bias-motivated crimes causing bodily injury," The Gazette reported. ""Aldrich's lawyer is listed in court records as Joseph M. Archambault, who is the chief trial deputy for the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender. Records show that Archambault filed six motions to the court on behalf of Aldrich on Tuesday."

A Michigan man has been arrested after threatening to murder FBI director Christopher Wray and California Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA). According to MSNBC, the man was mentally ill, but was motivated by QAnon conspiracy theories.

Reporting the breaking news, Chris Jansing cited new court documents as the source of the information.

Stephen Colbert took a moment to issue a serious note about the latest mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs. The piece of the story that he honed in on was that "heroes" stepped up to attack and detain the shooter.

"You should not have to live in fear because of who you are, or who you love, or who you just wanna dance with," Colbert said. "Authorities say it would have been even worse, but the gunman was subdued by what is being described as 'heroic patrons.' I, like everybody else, salute the courage of these heroic patrons, but just hearing that term makes me mad. Why do we constantly have to have 'heroic patrons,' or 'heroic teachers,' or 'heroic bystanders'? How about some heroic politicians who will do anything about the epidemic of gun violence in this country? Or a heroic justice system that stops a dangerous person like this with a history of violence from getting access to these weapons of war? Or how about a heroic Supreme Court that recognizes that, however you want to interpret it, the Second Amendment, as it is currently applied, is a complete failure?"

There were two major heroes at the Colorado Springs shooting on Saturday night, including one veteran who jumped to act, grabbing the shooter and beating him with his own gun. Yet, somehow, it was the hero that was arrested.

The New York Times reported that when police arrived, however, Richard M. Fierro was at Club Q with his wife and daughter when the shooting started. He beat the shooter so bloody he was covered. So, when police arrived, Fierro was arrested and detained for hours.

Five days before the 2022 election, Republican Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt's son, John, was arrested for a DUI in a car full of guns. There wasn't a peep about it until after the election, however. Now, the strong arm of the law is coming down on Stitt's son.

The Oklahoman reported Monday that Logan County Sheriff Damon Devereaux said that no one should be given special treatment and Stitt's son wasn't in this situation. He stands by his deputy's actions on Oct. 31, he said.

The latest large mass shooting in Colorado Springs is raising questions about the attacker, who had a history of violence and had even made bomb threats in the past, resulting in federal charges.

Speaking to MSNBC on Monday, former FBI counterintelligence official Frank Figliuzzi mentioned red flag laws, noting that it's something that most Americans support.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints confirmed on Monday that the Club Q shooting suspect was a member of their church.

The shooter killed five people and injured nearly two dozen more at the LGBTQ club, which was celebrating Transgender Day of Remembrance -- a day devoted to those lost in the trans community to violence.

Former FBI counter-intelligence official, Frank Figliuzzi, cited reports that someone matching the suspected shooter's name, age, and hometown as the Club Q shooting called in a bomb threat. It prompted Figliuzzi to ask how the shooter was allowed access to guns.

"Even the complainant may have been his mother and the target of the threat may have been his mother's home," he explained. "If that comes out to be accurate and confirmed, of course, it will raise questions of why this individual was permitted to possess a weapon. And the larger question of what criteria should forbid or preclude someone from possessing a weapon? This person reportedly, according to police, had two weapons -- including a long gun that he used in this episode. Here we are again talking about mass violence. Talking about what looks right now in the early stages to be a targeted event. As the reporters said, November 20th is Transgender Remembrance Day. It's important in the law enforcement community when they are investigating things like this to look at anniversaries, days of remembrance, and what does the calendar say about maybe a possible motive."

The shooter of the LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs had a strange legal history, an ABC News reporter confirmed on Sunday morning.

In June 2021, Anderson Lee Aldrich was arrested in Colorado Springs after making a bomb threat to a neighborhood. The report matched the name, age and location of the shooter Sunday.

Seven university students were dead and at least one gunman was on the run Monday following weekend violence that struck two US campuses in the states of Idaho and Virginia, authorities said.

Police were hunting for the student suspect in a shooting that left three people dead and two others wounded at the University of Virginia about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of the nation's capital Washington.