OAN Staff Avril Elfi
Monday, September 23, 2024 3:43 p.m.
A Colorado jury has returned a guilty verdict on all charges, including first-degree murder, against a man who shot and killed 10 people at a King Soopers supermarket in 2021.
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On Monday, 25-year-old Ahmad Alissa was found guilty of all 55 charges, including 10 counts of first-degree murder, 38 counts of attempted first-degree murder, one count of first-degree assault and six counts of possession of a large-capacity magazine.
Alissa's defense had argued he was innocent because he did not know right from wrong when he fired the gun. Alissa has since been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
But prosecutors were able to show that in the days before the attack, Alissa showed all the signs of knowing right from wrong, including showing up to work regularly, driving his brother to work and obeying all traffic laws.
March 22andAlissa began firing indiscriminately in all directions after getting out of his car in the parking lot of a King Soopers store on January 14, 2021. He killed most of his victims in just over a minute, then turned himself in after being shot in the leg by police.
The victims were Neven Stanisic (23), Tralona Bartkoviak (49), Denny Stong (20), Teri Riker (51), Suzanne Fountain (59), Kevin Mahoney (61), Lynn Murray (62), Jody Waters (65), Ricky Olds (25), and Boulder Police Officer Eric Talley (51), who responded to the scene.
Alissa frequently posted on his Facebook page about Islam, kickboxing and wanting a girlfriend. He faces a likely sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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