They wanted an AR-15 mass murder. They got it. 3/23/21 Daily Beast:Authorities on Tuesday identified the suspect in the shooting deaths of 10 people at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, as 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, whose brother said he was deeply disturbed.
Alissa, who is from Arvada, has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder for the massacre. He was taken into custody after being shot during apprehension.
Ali Aliwi Alissa, the suspect’s 34-year-old brother, told The Daily Beast that authorities searched his house all night after the shooting.
Alissa described his brother as “very anti-social” and paranoid, adding that, in high school, he would describe “being chased, someone is behind him, someone is looking for him.”
“When he was having lunch with my sister in a restaurant, he said, ‘People are in the parking lot, they are looking for me.’ She went out, and there was no one. We didn’t know what was going on in his head,” Alissa said, admitting that he believes his brother is mentally ill.
Boulder's AW and LCM ban were blocked ten days ago by the courts. 3/23/21 New York Post:
Ten days before a gunman killed 10 people at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket, a judge blocked the city from enforcing a ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines — likely setting up a renewed gun control debate in the state.
Unless he bought in the last ten days, that action is irrelevant.
Yes, he is a Muslim, and reputed to be an ISIS sympathizer, but mental illness is the most plausible explanation for this crime; sympathy for torturers like ISIS is more likely a symptom than cause.
Would have made no difference anyway. Law enforcement officials identified the alleged shooter as Ahmad Alyssa, 21, an Arvada resident.
ReplyDeleteHis last name has appeared variously as Alyssa and Al Issa. FWIW, Arvada is in Jefferson County, and the ordinance in question covered Boulder county.
Almost all of these mass killers were either known to be unstable prior to their killings and/or on the political left so I wonder someone is encouraging them in order to further gun control efforts.
ReplyDeleteSomeone on Facebook claimed he bought the gun the day of the shooting. But then again.... Facebook.
ReplyDeleteLast I heard, he bought the gun 6 days before the shooting, but again, he didn't live in Boulder county. No one knows yet exactly where he bought the gun, and I haven't heard what size mags he had, but the video has sounds of him firing very slowly and deliberately so mag size would probably make no difference at all.
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