(ASSOCIATED PRESS) Police on Tuesday identified a 21-year-old man as the suspect who opened fire inside a crowded Colorado supermarket, and court documents showed that he purchased an assault rifle less than a week before the attack that killed 10 people, including a police officer.
Supermarket employees told investigators that Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa shot an elderly man multiple times outside the Boulder grocery store before going inside, according to the documents. Another person was found shot in a vehicle next to a car registered to suspect’s brother. The documents did not say where the gun was purchased.
Authorities said Alissa was from the Denver suburb of Arvada and that he engaged in a shootout with police Monday afternoon inside the store. The suspect was being treated at a hospital and was expected to be booked into the county jail later in the day on murder charges.
Investigators have not established a motive, but authorities believe he was the only shooter, Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty said.
A law enforcement official briefed on the shooting told The Associated Press that the gunman used an AR-15 rifle, a lightweight semiautomatic rifle. Officials were trying to trace the weapon. The official was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity.
The suspect’s family told investigators they believed Alissa was suffering some type of mental illness, including delusions. Relatives described times when Alissa told them people were following or chasing him, which they said may have contributed to the violence, the official told AP.
The attack sent terrorized shoppers and employees scrambling for cover. It was the nation’s deadliest mass shooting since a 2019 assault on a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, where a gunman killed 22 people in a rampage that police said targeted Mexicans.
Hundreds of police from throughout the Denver area responded to the attack, converging on a King Soopers supermarket in a busy shopping plaza.
SWAT officers carrying ballistic shields slowly approached the store as others escorted frightened people away from the building, which had some of its windows shattered. Customers and employees fled through a back loading dock to safety. Others took refuge in nearby shops.
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I wouldn't be surprised if he was just another religious wacko…
Grocery shooter and spa shooter killed 18 ppl and went to jail meanwhile black man sam dubos had no front tag and police blew his head off the use of force makes sense
He didn't like what the white guy did, killed 6 asians, so he killed 6 white women to evoke within the white community what asians are feeling because he had a bad day.
WE DEMAND CCTV FOOTAGE OF THIS HAPPENING!!!
🙏🙏🙏🙏
Sad
The msm has control of you and your thoughts, the media is the brainwashing evil
Joe Biden supporter. Left wing nut job.
real or psyop?
WHEN KAMALA LAUGHS AT EVERYTHING & HER FAMILY JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS LIKE THE SHOOTER BEING WHITE AS USUAL THAT LIVES, IS VERY TYPICAL OF THE DEMOCRAT THINKING. WHEN IN FACT, THE SHOOTER WAS SYRIAN AND THE VICTIMS WERE WHITE! THAT IS WHEN THE DEMOCRATS CHANGE THERE STRATEGY (NEVER APOLOGIZING) & NOW FOCUSING ON ANOTHER FALSE STRATEGY ON GUNS WHEN IT SHOULD BE ON MENTAL NUT JOBS! BUT, THEY DON'T REALIZE THEIR OWN!
before killing he got inspiration from Quran
America should ban
Hate crime. Murdered whites because he was brainwashed by media propoganda on Trump
He's Syrian. You don't suppose the shooting may be because the OBiden admininstration was itching to resume bombing the hell out of Syria again as soon as that senile, old fraud stole the white house. OBiden bombed Iran in Syria again the day before the shooting. When will you lefties realize democrat policies have consequences?
You had killed 1 millions in Irak and syria and in Afghanistan and you continue killing…they were not cheeps..so stop killing stop helping Israil the killer free…
Stupid Politic US …
😭😭😭😭😭😭😞TEARS!!!!!!
wow so far it looks like a white hate crime….. 🤔
Death by diversity. Invite the third world, become the third world.
Seems like so far the victims are white must be a hate crime
If those pics where a different race, the tone would be so different in the comments and in the stories
Thank you, Obama and Biden-Harris for Islam's contribution to America.
#DEATHPENALTY
DEATH PENALTY
The answer is more citizens with guns. No one, except a suicidal, would walk into a store and try to shot five people if the suicidal knew that 98 percent of American citizens carry hand guns.
The shooters know people shy away from gun familiarization and know most people in the store are not carrying.
Gun safety, familiarization and qualify to carry should not be specific to Law Enforcement, protection services and Military. Gun safety in schools at every grade level and Qualify to carry should be standard education for a free country. That is the biggest mistake to assume only certain groups should be trained and educated in Gun safety.
The gun license should be the way you get a driver's license but, with way more exposure over time into all grade levels with gun knowledge, safety and operation. Yes, tax payers should fund Gun Safety in all schools. Gun safety education and training should be put in the Constitution. Gun free zones get innocent people killed.
Targeting white people and the Asians just a big deal on TV about getting attacked over the year's. Wonder if they'll put whites getting raped, robbed, beat up and killed "everyday" for the last 50 year's?
Idk 🤷🏾♀️ but am I the only one who only seen 5 out of 10 in the picture
Wow! Just in time for gun control laws.
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Watch and see they claim he was bullied . Make excuse , then gun control , why is it guns fault when its bad guy. And bad cop when its the cop shoots. Mercurynews.com = shooters history
I don’t like these weird emotional speeches by officials
It is absolutely sickening what's going on in this world! Even the Earth is weeping and convulsing for what evil is rampaging on it!
sigh
Another non-White taking the lives of my people. STOP. KILLING. US. #WLM
No one has any idea why Amahd did this. Religion of peace maybe?
Colorado sure does have a lot of mass shootings, it must be the air or weed up there
Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa is the Shooters name he is a Muslim Extremes, so this is a hate crime on whites
Manchurian sleeper , staged event , the great American gun grab.
My heart goes out to the 10 who got killed put the one who killed them to death have him face the death penalty right away with no trial. Dont waste tax dollars on keeping him alive don't feed him just put him in deaths bed now.
20, 23 and 25 GOD they were so young. SUPER sad
R.I.P to all of them 🙏
whites were killed. why isn't this a hate crime??
Other sources say he was ISIS supporter. bought the rifle last week. was on FBI watch list. All victims are white. had assault charges in 2018. Just another peaceful ASIAN guy. Oh yeah in case you missed it. Born in Syria.
Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa is a weird name for a white supremacist
If this guy were a “white supremacist” as alleged, how do you explain the identities of his (all white) victims? And, no, an AR-15 is NOT a so-called “assault rifle.” It is a semi-automatic (one trigger squeeze, one shot fired) modern sporting rifle. Dumb MSM.
These news people should be taught when NOT to smile. You'd think it wouldnt be necessary, but the woman newscaster looked like a fool.