Gunman who killed 10 in Colorado King Soopers supermarket massacre gets life in prison, no parole

The gunman who massacred 10 radical astatine Kings Soopers supermarket successful Boulder, Colorado, successful 2021 was sentenced Monday to life successful situation without parole.

Judge Ingrid Bakke sentenced Ahmad Alissa hours aft a assemblage convicted him of 10 counts first-degree murder, 38 charges of attempted murder, 1 number of battle and six counts of possessing illegal, large-capacity magazines. Alissa, 25, volition service 10 consecutive beingness sentences for the murders and different 1,334 years for the remainder of the charges.

In this March 22, 2021, record photo, constabulary enactment connected the country extracurricular of a King Soopers market store wherever a shooting took spot successful Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Alissa has schizophrenia, and his defence squad had tried to person him acquitted by reason of insanity. While Alissa’s attorneys did not quality that helium had mowed down 10 people, 1 of them a police officer, they argued helium could not archer close from incorrect astatine the time.

But neither the assemblage nor the prosecution bought it. Neither did psychologists who evaluated Alissa, contempt his assertion to having heard “killing voices” earlier his rampage. They recovered his quality to archer close from incorrect to beryllium intact, arsenic evidenced by his fearfulness that helium could beryllium jailed oregon killed by police.

“This was not astir intelligence illness. This was astir brutal, intentional violence,” said District Attorney Michael Dougherty.

Alissa drove to Boulder connected March 22 looking for a supermarket and pulled into the King Soopers parking batch with a legally purchased semi-automatic Ruger AR-556 pistol and began firing.

He killed Boulder Police Officer Eric Talley, the archetypal to respond to the scene; Denny Stong, 20; Neven Stanisic, 23; Rikki Olds, 25; Tralona Bartkowiak, 49; Suzanne Fountain, 59; Teri Leiker, 51; Kevin Mahoney, 61; Lynn Murray, 62, and Jody Waters, 65. Many of the victims’ household members work interaction statements aft the verdict.

With News Wire Services