As the U.S. rolls off its second major shooting in less than a week, authorities are working together to make up for the rampage that killed 10 people at a supermarket in Colorado this afternoon. .
Images begin to appear of the victims, including the owner of a local clothing store, a former grandfather, a designer and a Medicare agent who was also an actor.
The suspect in the shooting is in jail, but there are many questions about what caused the unanswered shooting. Here’s a look at what’s on and what’s not:
HYMN LOST
Some victims were shot to the ground while picking up food; others applied for a working day. One of them, Eric Talley, was a police officer who raced to the store that day to free people from the deadly attack.
The victims were identified as Denny Stong, 20; Neven Stanisic, 23; Rikki Olds, 25; Tralona Bartkowiak, 49; Teri Leiker, 51; Fuaran Suzanne, 59; Kevin Mahoney, 61; Lynn Murray, 62; and Jodi Waters, 65.
The attack was the seventh massacre this year and killed the country since the 2019 attack on Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killed nearly two dozen people.
MOTIVE SHOOTER
Many in southern Boulder saw the King Soopers grocery store as a major community center, a liberal city of about 100,000 people that is home to the University of Colorado.
But the suspect in the shooting, 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, was from the suburb of Denver in Arvada, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) away. The two-story house is believed to have been owned by his father in a relatively new, central to high-rise area.
His family told investigators they believed Alissa was suffering from some form of mental illness, including a rash, according to a law enforcement officer who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity. Alissa seemed to think at times that people were following her or running her, which may have been the violence, according to what relatives told the officer, who received information about the shooting but did not he was authorized to speak in public.
AN WEAPON
The suspect bought the weapon believed to have been used in the shooting six days before the trenches. Authorities have not said where or how he bought it. The AR-15-style gun recovered at the sight, Ruger-AR-556, is technically a pistol but strongly resembles a rifle with a slightly shorter stock. Another handgun was found inside the store in addition to Alissa’s tactical green vest removed along with most of her clothing before she was arrested.
He had been playing around with what looked like a “machine gun” about two days earlier, his sister-in-law told police.
PAST ASSAULT
While a high school student in Arvada 2018, Alissa was convicted of knocking a classmate to the floor, then straightening her back and punishing her in the head several times, according to police documents .
Alissa complained that the student had joked about him and given him “racial names” weeks earlier, according to the details. Alissa was born in Syria, emigrated to the U.S. as a child and is now a U.S. citizen, according to two law enforcement officials who spoke to the AP on an anonymous state because they are not authorized to speak publicly. He was sentenced to prison and community service.
A former fighting team player told the Associated Press he had a “short fuse”, and was kicked by the team after missing a game and getting so angry that he released a string of invectives and yelled to kill. and everyone.
HYMNS GUN
A Boulder city ban judge on possession of assault weapons struck 10 days before the trenches. It is very likely that we do not know if he could have stopped it, but it was a difficult time for city leaders who were hoping to prevent a major fire of the kind that has caught on. Colorado several times over the past two decades.
The state has a law that allows the removal of firearms from people at risk. Family, family members or law enforcement can petition a judge under what is known as a high-risk protection order or “red flag law.”
It is unclear whether anyone close to Alissa was concerned about his conduct to begin the court process over the past week. Still, convincing a judge that the seizure or surrender of a weapon usually requires evidence of a nearby threat, said Jacob Charles, executive director at the Duke Center for Military Law. Considering the importance of the Second Amendment rights, general concerns about someone working strangely and armed are usually not enough, he said.
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Related journalist Colleen Long in Washington, DC contributed to this report.
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