By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-23 20:41:41 | Updated at 2024-09-30 15:26:50
6 days ago
Gunman who killed 10 at Colorado supermarket in 2021 convicted of murder
Reuters ^ | September 23, 2024 | Keith Coffman
Posted on 09/23/2024 1:25:53 PM PDT by george76
Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 25, had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury instead found the Syria-born man, guilty in Boulder District Court on 10 counts of first-degree murder.
In Colorado, a first-degree murder conviction carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Had Alissa been found not guilty by reason of insanity, he would have been sent to the state psychiatric hospital, with any release from that facility requiring a judge's approval.
It was never in dispute that Alissa carried out the rampage
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Authorities said Alissa was armed with a legally purchased Ruger AR-556 pistol, which resembles an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, when he entered the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, about 30 miles (50 km) northwest of Denver, on March 22, 2021.
Alissa shot dead two people in the parking lot before entering the store and killing eight others, including a police officer who responded to the shooting.
"He is methodical and he is brutal," District Attorney Michael Dougherty told jurors in closing arguments.
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Sarah Chen, a pharmacist working that day, testified during the trial that she heard Alissa shriek with delight as he fired his weapon as she and other workers crouched behind a counter.
"He said, 'This is fun, this is so much fun,'" Chen testified.
Alissa was born in Syria and his family emigrated to the United States when he was a small child and settled in a Denver suburb.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Israel; Politics/Elections; Syria; US: Colorado; War; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ahmad; alaliwi; alaliwialissa; alissa; banglist; colorado; crime
1 posted on 09/23/2024 1:25:53 PM PDT by george76
To: george76
They’ll take care of him in prison, hopefully.
2 posted on 09/23/2024 1:29:41 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
To: george76
Even ignoring the outrage that he isn’t being publicly hanged for this mass murder - this happened 3.5 years ago. There was never any dispute, even from the perp himself, that he did it.
Trial should have been wrapped up within 3 weeks. How can this be considered “justice?”
3 posted on 09/23/2024 1:31:13 PM PDT by PGR88
To: telescope115
Ahmad , ISIL supporter ( note the Levant part ) - drove miles out of his way to attack this store - driving past many other stores.. Why this store - just before Passover ?
San Bernardino moslem terrorists (Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik) murdered Christians at a Christmas party...
The Boston Marathon moslem Bombers (the Tsarnaev brothers)..
Anyone notice a pattern?
4 posted on 09/23/2024 1:31:21 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: MileHi; dynachrome; backspace; Balata; bboop; Ben Dover; Benito Cereno; BigEdLB; bluejean; ...
Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
5 posted on 09/23/2024 1:32:21 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
Boy, the U.S. courts and these GD lawyers are an embarrassment...And it only took these corrupt AHs almost 4 years to convict this government imported murdering piece of s**t?
They had video and multiple witnesses? Almost 4 years?? Did they all get wealthy off this? Write books? Get all that notoriety so they can run for another office?
6 posted on 09/23/2024 1:33:16 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: george76
Free room and board for the rest of his life while ten victims are dead. That is crue.
7 posted on 09/23/2024 1:33:51 PM PDT by Fungi
To: PGR88
Remember the Fort Hood moslem jihadist ( Nidal Hasan ) ? Barry called it work place violence..
8 posted on 09/23/2024 1:35:23 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
You don’t hear about crap like this happening in Japan.....know why?
Because there’s only one muslim for every 100,000 Japanese.
9 posted on 09/23/2024 1:36:04 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: george76
10 posted on 09/23/2024 1:40:07 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
To: george76
Somehow, I don’t even remember this shooting, possibly because the shooter’s ethnicity insured that the story would be dropped from the news cycle ASAP. But we constantly here about Charlottesville, where one woman died in what was apparently an unpremeditated instance of road rage or panic when the driver of the car felt threatened by counter protestors.
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