“When he was having lunch with my sister in a restaurant, he said, ‘People are in the parking lot, they are looking for me,’” Ali Aliwi Alissa, 34, told the outlet.
Facebookīut the alleged shooter’s older brother told the Daily Beast that he believes his sibling is mentally ill. “We don’t have the answer to that yet, and the investigation is in its very early stages.” Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty said Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa appears to be the only suspect.
“Why did this happen?” asked Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty at the briefing. Court documents released later in the day showed he had purchased a Ruger AR-556 pistol on March 16, and revealed chilling details from witnesses of the shooting.Īuthorities have already interviewed Alissa, but they did not disclose Tuesday what, if anything, he said about his motive. Ahmad Al Aliwi AlissaĪlissa, who was shot in the leg and is hospitalized in stable condition, was expected to be transferred to a local jail Tuesday. “They were the victims of the entire Islamophobia industry that vilified them.”Īlissa’s identity was known to the FBI because he was linked to another individual under investigation by the bureau, law enforcement sources told the New York Times - though the report didn’t say who that person is, or what they were being probed for. “The Muslims at the #christchurch mosque were not the victims of a single shooter,” the reposted message reportedly read. Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold identified the alleged gunman in Monday’s massacre as 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa. In a different post, Alissa shared another person’s thoughts the day after the 2019 mosque massacres in Christchurch, New Zealand, that killed 51 people. “Yeah if these racist islamophobic people would stop hacking my life phone and let me have a normal life I probably could,” he wrote in one July 2019 post, according to the Daily Beast. His account included postings about Islam, such as the faith’s prayers and religious holidays, and his apparent suspicions that he was under surveillance. “And we will always remember the victims of the King Soopers shooting.”Īlissa’s now-deleted Facebook page said he was “born in Syria in 1999 came to the USA in 2002,” the Daily Beast reported.
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“We will hold the evildoer responsible to the full extent of the law for his actions,” said Democratic Gov. More than three dozen killed in mass shootings in the US since MarchĪ 21-year-old Syrian-born man was identified Tuesday as the alleged Colorado supermarket shooter who killed 10 people including a police officer - with records revealing that he had posted online about “Islamophobia” and once cold-cocked a high school bully.Īhmad Al Aliwi Alissa of Arvada, Colo., now faces 10 counts of first-degree murder for the rampage he allegedly unleashed Monday afternoon in a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colo., where some shoppers were out getting COVID-19 vaccines, officials said at a Tuesday briefing. More charges filed against alleged King Soopers gunman Ahmad Alissa Boulder King Soopers shooting suspect incompetent for trialĪccused Boulder grocery store shooter ordered to get mental health exam
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