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2021 Boulder shooting
Part of mass shootings in the United States
The King Soopers parking lot where the shooting began (2016)
Map
LocationTable Mesa neighborhood of Boulder, Colorado, U.S.
Coordinates39°59′01″N 105°15′05″W / 39.98361°N 105.25139°W / 39.98361; -105.25139
DateMarch 22, 2021 (2021-03-22)
c. 2:30 p.m. MDT
TargetPeople at a King Soopers supermarket
Weapons
Deaths10[3]
InjuredSeveral (including the suspect)[4]
MotiveUnder investigation[2]
AccusedAhmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa[5]
Charges10 counts of first-degree murder, 1 count of attempted murder

On March 22, 2021, a mass shooting occurred at a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Ten people were killed, including a local on-duty police officer.[3] Several other officers were injured.[4] The alleged shooter, Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa, was wounded in the leg by police and briefly hospitalized[6] before being moved to the Boulder County Jail.[7]

Events

The shooting began shortly after 2:30 p.m. MDT (20:30 UTC) when a gunman entered the parking lot of a King Soopers supermarket and began to fire at people.[8] He was wearing what was described as an "armored" vest and armed with a "rifle", which turned out to be a Ruger AR-556 pistol, as well as another semi-automatic handgun.[1][2] At 2:33 p.m., the Boulder Police Department began receiving calls of a person with a "patrol rifle" in the area and shots being fired. Witnesses at the scene reported hearing anywhere from ten to thirty shots fired in rapid succession by the gunman.[9][10]

At 2:34 p.m., a Boulder Police dispatcher provided an initial description of the gunman as a "middle-aged white male with dark hair and a beard".[11] He was first seen by employees and customers who watched him shoot at customers in the parking lot before turning and entering the store.[12] One victim was killed in a car parked next to the gunman's vehicle, and another was shot multiple times in the parking lot.[13][14]

A man waiting in line with his family for his COVID vaccine at the store's pharmacy witnessed the gunman walk in the store and shoot a woman at the front of the line before finding safety in a coat closet with his family.[15] Some customers and employees reached safety through a back exit for the supermarket.[9][10] Some were praised for their actions in helping evacuate and hide individuals away from the shooter.[16]

By 2:39 p.m., responding officers reported being fired upon repeatedly by the gunman.[11] One of the first officers on the scene was Officer Eric Talley, who entered the building at 2:50 p.m. and was shot and killed by the gunman.[11][6][17] Other officers engaged him in a gunfight from 3:00 p.m. to 3:21 p.m.[11][18] A store employee said that while she was hiding, she heard gunshots and screams and then only the store music and phones ringing afterwards. Eventually, the gunman was shot in the leg; he surrendered by saying, "I surrender. I'm naked",[12] and at 3:28 p.m., he was taken into custody.[19]

A shelter-in-place order was issued in the area at 4:18 p.m. and lifted at 6:40 p.m.[20] Up to fifteen agencies responded to the incident, including the Jefferson County SWAT, the FBI, the ATF and local police departments.[21] A fire department ladder truck was used to get a SWAT team onto the roof.[22] At least three medical helicopters were summoned to a staging area at nearby Fairview High School.[23][24]

Victims

There were ten fatalities in the shooting:[23] five shoppers, three supermarket employees,[25] police officer Eric Talley (who had worked for the Boulder Police Department for eleven years),[26] and a repairman. The victims were identified the day after the shooting; the youngest was aged 20, while the oldest was aged 65. Additionally, several other responding police officers were injured.[4][27]

Suspect

Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa, age 21, from nearby Arvada, Colorado, is the alleged shooter. Al-Issa was born in Syria in 1999 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen.[28][29][30] His family immigrated to the U.S. in 2002 and moved to Arvada in 2014.[31] Al-Issa's older brother said that Al-Issa has a history of paranoid, disturbed, and antisocial behavior that developed after Al-Issa was bullied in high school, and his brother was concerned for his mental health.[31][32][33] Al-Issa was convicted of a misdemeanor in 2018 for punching a classmate at Arvada West High School.[2][30][33] He pleaded guilty to an assault charge in relation to the incident and received two months of probation in addition to 48 hours of community service.[33][34][35] According to a police affidavit, Al-Issa bought a Ruger AR-556 semi-automatic pistol on March 16.[31] Boulder police clarified in a news conference on March 26 that they believed the Ruger AR-556 was the only weapon used by the suspect during the shooting, but he also had a 9mm handgun with him.[36] Al-Issa's identity was already known to the Federal Bureau of Investigation due to a link to another person under investigation by law enforcement officials.[28]

Al-Issa expressed on his now-deleted Facebook page and to his high school wrestling teammates that he believed he was being targeted for harassment due to racism and Islamophobia.[30][33][34] According to SITE Intelligence Group, "there was no indication on his Facebook account that suggested radical views of any kind, whether it be Islamist, anti-Trump, or anything else."[30] His brother said the shootings were not a political statement.[33][37] The Boulder County District Attorney is waiting to reveal more information about Al-Issa's motives while the FBI and other agencies are investigating the case, to ensure a fair trial.[2]

After the shooting, Al-Issa was charged with ten counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.[4][38][39][40][41] He had a leg wound at the time of his arrest, so he was transported to Boulder Community Health Foothills Hospital.[42] Boulder police formally took him into custody using the handcuffs of slain officer Eric Talley[30][43] and later transferred him to the Boulder County Jail, where he was held without bond.[7][40] Al-Issa's identity was revealed to the public on March 23, the day after the shooting.[31] At Al-Issa's first court appearance on March 25, his lawyer asked for a mental health assessment for Al-Issa.[44] It was later reported that, due to threats, Al-Issa was moved to another county.[45][46]

Tributes

At around 8:00 p.m. on the day of the shooting, a procession honored Officer Eric Talley as his body was being taken to a funeral home.[47] A separate memorial for the victims was created along a chain-link fence bordering the grocery store, as mourners placed candles, flowers, and other items along its base or through the chain-link.[48][49]

Governor Jared Polis ordered the state's flags to fly at half-staff for ten days: one day for each victim.[50] President Joe Biden also ordered flags on federal property nationwide to be flown at half-staff. This order came on the same day as the expiration of a federal order to fly flags at half-staff to honor the victims of the Atlanta spa shootings of March 16, less than a week before.[51]

Sports teams in Colorado and victims of other mass shootings expressed sympathy for the victims and family members of the Boulder shooting.[52][53][54] A vigil for the victims and survivors of the shooting was held on March 25. U.S. Representative Joe Neguse, whose district includes Boulder, spoke at the vigil about curbing gun violence.[55] In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper that day, the family of one of the victims spoke about him and their appreciation for the outpouring of support.[56]

Reactions

Gun control debate

Al-Issa legally purchased a Ruger AR-556 pistol on March 16 at a local gun shop using Colorado's universal background check law, even though he was previously convicted of a misdemeanor assault. Federal law only prohibits firearm purchases for those convicted of a felony.[2][56] Ten days before the shooting, a judge had blocked a ban on assault rifles in a lawsuit backed by the National Rifle Association. The ban had been passed in Boulder in 2018 after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.[1]

President Biden delivers remarks on the shooting (transcript)

Following the shooting, discussion was renewed on the topic of gun control. At the national level, President Joe Biden called for an immediate ban on assault weapons; other Democratic politicians echoed his sentiments, including U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, U.S. Representative Joe Neguse of Colorado, and former President Barack Obama.[57][58] Biden also urged that loopholes be closed in the background check system and praised Officer Eric Talley, who was killed in the shooting, for his heroism.[59] In an interview with CBS This Morning, Vice President Kamala Harris responded to the mass shootings by discussing the need for gun reform legislation.[60] Similar calls for gun control and loopholes to be closed were echoed by newspaper editorial boards,[61][62] and many celebrities.[63] Particular discussion was raised over the weapon used in the shooting, an AR-15 style firearm billed as a pistol despite its closer similarities to a rifle in appearance and operation.[64][65]

Republican politicians, such as Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, have criticized the renewed push for gun control, saying that they believe gun control does not help lessen crime.[66][67] Likewise, Democratic Senator Joe Manchin spoke out against two bills recently passed by the House of Representatives that were in favor of universal background checks banning almost all gun sales without federal government approval, saying his views were more in line with the bill he co-authored with Republican Senator Pat Toomey shortly after the Sandy Hook school shooting.[68]

Responses to initial witnesses

A witness who livestreamed the crime to a YouTube channel received criticism from some and praise from others. He had identified himself repeatedly as a journalist to law enforcement before being removed from the scene.[69] At peak viewership during the event, the livestream had about 30,000 viewers, and many criticized YouTube for allowing the video to remain on its site. The company responded with a statement that the video had enough news or documentary context to remain, regardless of the violence shown.[70]

Before officers had arrived on the scene, a police dispatcher described the shooter as a "white male, middle-aged, dark hair, beard, black vest, short-sleeved shirt."[11] As news of the shooting broke, media sources reported on tweets saying the shooter was not killed by police, but simply arrested, because he was a "white man". The subsequent announcement that the suspect is a Syrian-American Muslim caused some of the authors of the tweets to delete their tweets.[71][72] Deborah Richardson, ACLU of Colorado's executive director, said that early assumptions made about Al-Issa by both law enforcement and the media were absolutely affected because he was perceived as white.[73] Writing in the The Hill, Marik von Rennenkampff criticized the initial media coverage, stating that "by rushing to attack the 'white, male' identity of the perpetrator, the Twitter mob made it far more difficult for some modicum of good to emerge from an unspeakably horrific act of violence.[74]

See also

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