El Paso County maintained a “state-created danger” in the year leading up to the 2022 Club Q shooting, an attorney told a federal appellate court this week. The hearing follows years of litigation by Chicago-based law firm Romanucci & Blandin, which Club Q victims hired in November 2024 to pursue a federal complaint against the county commissioners and the Sheriff’s Office alleging that the county failed to enforce Colorado’s red flag law and ignored warning signs that Anderson Aldrich would carry out a mass shooting. In July 2025, federal Judge William J. Martínez dismissed the plaintiffs’ claims, saying there is no evidence that county officials created or enhanced a state of danger. Police enter Club Q in Colorado Springs Nov. 20, 2022, as they investigate the shooting that left five dead.…