Authorities have not explained why Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa bypassed a King Soopers near his home in Arvada and drove about 15 miles to the chain’s store in Boulder, a city he had never visited before…
FILE – Tributes cover the temporary fence around the King Soopers grocery store in which 10 people died in a mass shooting in late March on Friday, April 23, 2021, in Boulder, Colo.
Robert Olds, uncle of Rikki Olds, who was fatally shot along with nine other people at a grocery store in Boulder, Colo., in 2021, looks through a memorial scrapbook in Lafayette, Colo., Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, then 21, surrendered after being shot in the leg by a police officer in the store, emerging wearing only his underwear and repeatedly asking officers to call his mother. His attorneys don’t dispute he was the shooter.The closest thing to a possible motive revealed so far was when a mental health evaluator testified during a competency hearing last year that Alissa said he bought firearms to carry out a mass shooting and suggested that he wanted police to kill him.
The defense argued in a court filing that his relatives said he irrationally believed that the FBI was following him and that he would talk to himself as if he were talking to someone who was not there. However, prosecutors point out Alissa was never previously treated for mental illness and was able to work up to 60 hours a week leading up to the shooting, something they say would not have been possible for someone severely mentally ill.
Authorities have not explained why Alissa bypassed a King Soopers near his home in the Denver suburb of Arvada and drove about 15 miles to the chain’s store in Boulder, a city he had never visited before the shooting, according to the defense. Several of Alissa’s relatives are listed as potential witnesses for the defense during the trial. Potential jurors will be questioned starting Tuesday, with opening statements expected before the end of the week.
Olds said he is bracing himself to learn more horrific details about the shooting, including surveillance video not previously shown in public.
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