The shooter has been identified as Ahmad Aliwi Alissa or Al-Issa, age 21 living in Arvada, CO. The DA said Al-Issa has lived most of his life in the US. He is still in the hospital for treatment of a leg wound and will be transferred to the Boulder County jail later today. No information on background, job or criminal record.
It has come out through media sources that he was born in Syria in 1999 and was brought to the US in 2002.
BREAKING: Authorities read names of victims of yesterday's mass shooting in Boulder, CO.
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Ten people, one of them a Boulder police officer, are dead following a shooting at a King Soopers in south Boulder on Monday.
After police earlier in the day did not confirm the number of fatalities, Boulder police Chief Maris Herold said at an evening news conference there were 10 dead, including Boulder police Officer Eric Talley.
“My heart goes out to the victims of this incident and I’m grateful for the police officers that responded, and I am so sorry about the loss of Officer Talley.”
Herold said police received a call at about 2:30 p.m. of a man with a rifle at the King Soopers at 3600 Table Mesa. Herold said Talley was the first on scene and was fatally shot.
Herold said Talley’s actions were “heroic,” and also praised the officers who followed him in responding to the active scene.
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“Police officers’ actions fell nothing short of being heroic,” she said.
The other nine victims have not yet been publicly identified by the Boulder County Coroner’s Office, but Herold said they were working to notify families as soon as possible.
“I know there are people out there waiting for an answer, and I’m sympathetic to that,” Herold said.
Police said the shooting and possible motive were still under investigation, but police do have one suspect in custody and do not believe there is any threat to the public.
“I want to reassure the community they are safe,” Herold said.
Police march handcuffed man thought to be suspect to ambulance in parking lot.
‘We just ran’
Sarah Moonshadow and her son, Nicolas Edwards, had just finished paying for strawberries when two shots rang out. She told her son to get down.
“We just ran,” Moonshadow said.
They felt the concussions of shots as they sprinted out. Outside, a body was lying in the parking lot and Moonshadow started toward it. “My son said, ‘No, Mom! We can’t do anything.'”
By the time they got outside, Edwards said police were flying into the parking lot and pulled up next to the body.
“I knew we couldn’t do anything for the guy,” he said. “We had to go.”
Just before 3 p.m. on Monday, Gary Strand and his wife, Jaye Hendrix, left the credit union and liquor store next to the grocery store when they heard the unthinkable happen.
“So we got to the car and — we started backing up right and then we heard pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop,” Strand said in an interview Monday.
“We both thought ‘What’s that noise?’. And then we heard the heavier booms and I said ‘Well that must be fireworks’ but then I was thinking, ‘Why would anyone be setting off fireworks right now’,” he added.
The Strands had just deposited a few checks at Elevations Credit Union, then picked up something from Pettyjohn’s Liquor and Wine and were deciding if they wanted to get the few things they needed from King Soopers right then or if it could wait. Ultimately the couple decided they could wait when the store was less crowded as Strand noted many people had been stocking up for the snow that was expected to come later in the evening.
As the couple left and went north on South Broadway toward the Super Target, just 4.5 miles away on Pearl Street, Strand said he and his wife saw several Boulder police cars speeding toward the King Soopers. As the couple headed back to their home in the neighborhood behind King Soopers, they said the entire area barricaded with police and other first responders from several different agencies.
“That’s when I turned to my wife and we both knew we had gotten audio from a mass shooting, we thought oh my God we recorded it. We got audio of a mass shooting,” Strand described. He said they immediately went home and pulled his audio from his dash cam and sent it in to the police and the Camera.
“We are quite shaken because my wife actually had worked for this King Soopers briefly part time during COVID for the pick-up service and she is worried about some of her friends in the store,” Strand said. “We hope they are OK, but we are worried, she is worried sick about it.”
Even hours after the shooting, police said the area around the King Soopers would remain closed while the investigation continued.
Marina La Grave, a victims advocate with the Boulder Police Department, was headed to support those who survived the shooting
“It’s going to be a long night,” she said.
Investigation continues
Boulder District Attorney Michael Dougherty said his office would work with police to determine the next steps.
“This is a tragedy and nightmare for Boulder County,” Dougherty said. “We will stand united in support of victims and families to ensure justice is done.”
Police did not release any further information about the suspect Monday.
Talley was 51, and was hired by the department in 2010, according to Herold.
“My heart goes out to Eric Talley’s family, his loved ones and his colleagues,” Herold said.
Talley is the first Boulder officer to be killed in the line of duty since Beth Haynes in 1994, and only the sixth on-duty death in the department’s history.
A procession of area law enforcement vehicles escorted the ambulance carrying Talley’s body to the Boulder County Coroner’s Office.
The Boulder Chamber of Commerce lit the Boulder star Monday night in honor of the victims, President and CEO John Tayer said.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis sent out a tweet on the shooting.
“Like my fellow Coloradans, I am closely watching unfolding events at King Soopers in Boulder,” Polis said. “My prayers are with our fellow Coloradans in this time of sadness and grief as we learn more about the extent of the tragedy.”
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse also put out a statement Monday.
“There are no words to describe the pain my community is experiencing tonight,” Neguse wrote. “I am heartbroken and praying for the families of those we’ve lost. This cannot be our new normal. We must address the gun violence crisis in our country.”
Boulder Councilwoman Rachel Friend also sent out her condolences Monday.
“There are no words to convey how sorry I am, to those who lost loved ones,” Friend tweeted. “My heart breaks for all who joined the unbearable ranks of survivors of gun violence tragedy in our community today.”
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tweeted that U.S. President Joe Biden, “has been briefed on the shooting in Colorado and he will be kept up to date by his team as there are additional developments.”
Staff Writers April Morganroth and Deborah Swearingen and The Denver Post contributed to this story.
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Human trash caused another tragedy. The sad thing is, the communist Democrats will use this as fodder, to get rid of our Second Amendment.
A Muslim terrorist!!!!!! That’s right Barack and Joe, I said the word ” Muslim terrorist”. Barack and Joe, I know you are offended by me saying “Muslim terrorist”, so go to your safe space with your gender neutral Barbie doll and tinker toys and be “offended”.
Be careful who you call a Muslim terrorist. Remember there’s a 4 eyed pig face from Michigan and a diaper head from Minnesota who won’t take to kindly about what you said. If Colorado doesn’t give this towel head the electric chair or the noose he’ll be cheered on by the Marxist dummycrats as a Martyr.
Kalama Harris wrote ” violent white men are the greatest Terrorist threat to america. ”
She is a racist. She should have said Muslims , BLM and antifa are the greatest Terrorist threat to america. She is a racist.
YOU CAN BET his race, won’t EVER be a factor in ANY DISCUSSION on this shooting.. JUST the gun he used.
I’m surprised they haven’t blamed the shooting on the dredded AR15 or AK47. You know, the “assault weapon” or “military style weapon.”
TWO reports i’ve listened to, ALREADY HAVE blamed it on “him possessing a military style AR-15, with modifications”..
Just remember this is the Capital of lib in Colorado and the most anti-gun. Trained and armed citizens can help avert some, not all, of these atrocities but they just won’t listen
The Liberal Media headlines should read “Third World Brown Type kills peaceful American Citizens. Instead they’ll find a way to blame Trump and White Privilege.
MANY TIMES< i've mentioned "ALL last year, we had NO mass shootings… BUT YOU CAN BET that come next year if biden wins, we will start seeing them again"..
AND ON CUE, here's a 2nd one in just as many weeks..
Its honestly getting to the point, that i wonder, ARE THESE SHOOTINGS engineered. JUST to stir up the hate against 'evil guns'??
“I want to reassure the community they are safe,” Herold said.
Really? When did the last Muslim, socialist, gang banger, MS 13 member, homeless druggie, and illegal alien…..etc., leave?
“Come on Man” the shooter is just a poor peaceful Muslim Shooter, most of his actions were peaceful. Your eyes just did not see what you think.
He’s just an idea, not a terrorist.
Muslim terrorism is just an idea, not a group.. How dare you be bigoted.. WE need to be more inclusive..
TEN DEMERITS for you!
My heart goes out to all the families of the victims and those who witnessed the carnage. CO has extremely strong gun control laws and yet they did NOTHING to stop this tragedy. The gunman didn’t care about any laws. Would throwing more charges (use of a larger magazine for instance) have stopped him from carrying out his crime? I seriously doubt it.
In fact, had a member of the law abiding public been armed they might have been able to stop the gunman before he shattered so many lives.
I’m curious about the mainstream reporting. When a white man shoots people in spas in GA it is immediately classified as a hate crime. Now we have a person with a distinctly ethnic name and there is zero mention of the crime being potentially (at least) hate motivated. What a sick double standard in the mainstream media.
The white shooter killed 2 whites as well. The common factor was sex worker, not race as the enemedia are portraying it. All Muslims whether raised in the US or not are sleepers who can be radicalized any time by their local imam or even just over the Internet. Since Muslims themselves cannot predict which among them will go off, they should be diverted to the 57 countries out of 199 in the world run by Muslim beliefs, not seeded among people they’re taught to despise.
THAT IS CAUSE< racism/hate crimes, Are ONLY MENTIONED when its a white perp..
I’m waiting for those xenophobic digs to surface from Joe the Biden mocking Trump and the GOP. This American hating shooter looks like one of the poster boys that Biden and his party are so desperate to import into this country.
“…possible motive [was] still under investigation…” Check the name. Answer right there.
Maybe he needs the word terrorist tattooed on his forehead , for people to understand.
Psaki says “We’ll circle back about that.”
EVEN if there was video evidence of him shouting Aluah ackbar, WHILE DOING THE KILLING, they’d STILL NEVER call it what it was, RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM!
Unlike in Atlanta where most of the victims were Asian, there mysteriously is missing the media reporting of the race of the 10 dead people in White dominated community of hyper Liberal city of Boulder? In Boulder the environmentalists require that all cell phone towers be camouflaged to look like Pine trees or an incorporated part of the buildings so nobody can see the truth of them. Apparently the same applies to the Liberal media reporting of lack of white privilege to survive the social insanity they breed where people who are are never taught within the liberal schools of social indoctrination the principles of self-governing or personal responsibiloity ,are allowed to hold guns that go out of control when the liberal weak minds finally snap from reality finally confronting propaganda, and the urge to play god over other people’s life and deaths takes over as just more historically proven secular socialist bad endings.
OF COURSE> Race only counts, when the perp is white.. Otherwise, it doesn’t matter.
How long did it take facebook to totally scrub all trace of this terrorist, including from the archives?
Come on LEO’s and put a finger in that wound and wiggle it around and he will tell you all you need to know. Muslim Terrorist.
Mass shooting. Yup, a Muslim extremist shoots up a store. On that same day 30,000,000 owners of semi-automatic (as apposed to fully automatic assault) rifles shot no one. The answer? If you guessed it was to crack down on muslim extremists, you would lose. The communist anti-constitution bunch want to go after the law abiding 30,000,000. Be careful. You can only poke a bear so many times.
I checked and this store doesn’t allow its patrons to open carry. When seconds count the police are just minutes away.
Good thing they don’t allow guns in the store. Someone might get hurt or even killed. Its so comforting to know we’re so safe in these gun free zones.
Just like those shootings in Atlanta, were also in ‘gun free zones..
Shows ya, JUST how useless they are.
Nothing to see here. Didn’t you get the memo? Didn’t ‘Obiden and the Democrats tell us diversity is our strength? Move along and don’t complain. Its just Another day of butterflies and sun shine in the diverse and compassionate USA. It’s only another peace-loving radical extremist acting out his contempt for America.. A Muslim supremacist dissatisfied with with satanic Americans and his righteous life of privilege.