A shooter killed at least ten people, including a police officer, in a supermarket Colorado police said on Monday in the latest incident in this western state United States, scene in the past of two of the most infamous mass shootings in the country.
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Last Tuesday, authorities reported charges against a 21-year-old man for this attack. Identified as Ahmad Alissa |According to a phonetic transcription of his name, quoted at a press conference, the attacker is hospitalized after injuring his leg. His condition is “stable” and he should be sent to prison soon, Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold said.
Witnesses in the supermarket King Soopers They said they initially heard multiple gunshots outside the store. Nevin Sloan, who narrowly escaped with his wife Quinlan, described the mounting panic as the blasts approached and those present decided to stay or try to escape.
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“Suddenly we started to listen ‘bang bang bang’ and I ran to her [su esposa] and I said, “We have to get out of here,” he told CBS, noting that they were helping others escape through an emergency exit. Ryan Borowski heard at least eight shots in the supermarket. “They almost killed me because I was going to buy a soda and a bag of chips,” he told CNN.
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I have the feeling that there are no more safe placesLocal police chief Maris Herold said 10 people were killed, including “heroic” police officer Eric Talley, 51, who was the first to respond to the emergency.
“I wasn’t surprised he was the first to arrive,” his father Homer Talley told the local network KUSA, noting that his son “loved his family more than anything else”. Footage broadcast live during the operation showed a man dressed only in running shorts and stained with blood being taken out of the store by officers.
An arrested suspect is the only person with “serious injuries at the moment,” the police commander said. Kerry Yamaguchi, who also did not want to confirm whether the man in the video was the attacker or what his motivation would be.
According to American media, the man was armed with an AR-15 assault rifle, a weapon often used in shootings.“The very complex investigation” will take at least five days, Herold estimated.
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Police arrived on the scene “just a few minutes” after being warned of the presence of a man with a rifle in the supermarket parking lot and “very quickly” they entered the area where he had been barricaded. according to Yamaguchi.
Unverified footage previously broadcast live by a witness showed at least three people lying face down on the floor, both inside and outside the store, before multiple shots were heard.
Dozens of armored vehicles, ambulances, and armed personnel, including FBI and SWAT agents, were deployed on the spot. Half a dozen police officers, armed with assault rifles, climbed onto the roof of the store with the help of a fire engine that set up the ladder.
“The actions of the police officers were heroic,” said Herold. “Our hearts are broken by this senseless act of violence,” said King Soopers spokeswoman Kelli McGannon, also praising the “aid workers who responded so bravely to these acts of violence.” The governor of
Colorado, Jared Polis, called the event a “meaningless tragedy.”
Tragedies in Colorado
This shooting comes days after the country was shaken by another attack on several Asian massage parlors in the southeastern state of Georgia, which left eight dead. Colorado, for its part, has already been the scene of two of the most serious mass shootings in history UNITED STATES.
In 1999, two teens murdered 12 classmates and a teacher at Columbine High School before committing suicide. Then, in 2012, a heavily armed man broke into a movie theater with a Batman movie in Aurora, Colorado, in which 12 people were killed.
The attacker is now serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. US President Joe BidenHe said last month that he wanted Congress to pass laws requiring background checks on all gun sales and a ban on assault and high-capacity weapons in stores.
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“This administration will not wait for the next mass shooting to answer that call,” the president said. Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer said the Senate “must and will continue to legislate to help contain the epidemic and gun violence.”
Next Monday, Senator Michael Bennet from Colorado, Democrat, urged Americans “To return to a national conversation about gun violence that is not limited to party politics.”
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