Prosecutors and defense attorneys focused on Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa’s sanity during closing arguments in Boulder District Court on Friday.
The King Soopers grocery store in south Boulder on March 26, 2021. On March 22, 2021, a gunman killed 10 people at the store, including a Boulder police officer.
Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 25, is standing trial on 55 crimes, including 10 counts of first-degree murder, in the March 22, 2021, attack at the King Soopers on Table Mesa Drive. His attorneys do not dispute that he was the shooter, but say he should be foundAlissa was diagnosed with schizophrenia after the mass shooting and suffered auditory and visual hallucinations for several years leading up to the attack.
“Mental illness does not mean insane,” Kupfner, Boulder County’s first assistant district attorney, told jurors. “Schizophrenia does not mean insane.” “He’s not going to do it near his house in Arvada,” Kupfner said. “…He came to Boulder. And he stopped at the first grocery store coming into town off of 93.”but also on whether Alissa was insane when he carried out the killings. His parents took the stand and testified that his behavior was strange before the attack and they thought he could be possessed by an evil spirit. He suffered from paranoia and delusion, experts testified.
“The person on right is so delusional, so psychotic, hearing voices — killing voices — over and over and over again,” she said, talking jurors through the severity of his schizophrenia and the difficulty doctors had treating him after his arrest.
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