10 killed in Boulder store shooting, including police officer, suspect in custody

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Tue, 23 Mar 2021 01:00 UTC

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10 killed in Boulder store shooting, including police officer, suspect in custody
Police officers and an ambulance are seen at the scene where an active shooter was reported at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, March 22, 2021.

Ten people were killed in a shooting spree at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, including one police officer, local law enforcement confirmed. A suspected gunman has been arrested.

"Our hearts go out to all families impacted. There are 10 fatalities," Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold told a press conference on Monday evening, several hours after a gunman went on a shooting rampage at a King Soopers supermarket in the Table Mesa neighborhood.

Among the victims was officer Eric Talley, who was first to respond to the reports of a gunman with "a patrol rifle" at the store, Herold said, calling the officer's conduct "heroic."

Horrifying video filmed by a shopper during Monday's mass shooting at a Boulder supermarket shows bodies strewn in the parking lot and on the supermarket floor

Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty also praised the officer. "My heart goes out to Eric Talley's family," he said, while extending condolences to the families of those killed.

The names of other victims have not been released as police still have to notify their next of kin.

One suspect has been taken into custody and is undergoing treatment for an injury. While police declined to identify the suspect, a live feed from a local news outlet earlier showed one man being led away from the scene of the shooting in handcuffs. He was partially naked and visibly bloodied. Police said that the only person who suffered injuries in the incident was the suspect.

No motive for the shooting has been established yet, with police saying the investigation is in its early stages.

Along with police, federal, state and local agencies are taking part in the probe.

An earlier report of an "armed, dangerous individual" at a location near the grocery store, which prompted a shelter-in-place notice, turned out to be unrelated to the store shooting, police said.

Comment: Someone claiming to be a journalist caught most of the event on camera. YT is letting this one stay up. Hmmm...

Details about the uploader here.

Apparently the gunman - a 21-year-old Syrian migrant - just downed his gun at one point and gave himself up quietly:

"They found his weapons right by the pharmacy," she said, adding that she heard the shooter say: "I surrender. I'm naked."

He is yet one more in a long line of completely (apparently) motiveless mass shooters in the USA. He literally said nothing the whole time he methodically shot dead 10 people:

The scariest part of the ordeal, Smith said, was that the gunman didn't say a single word as he made his way around the store. "There was a little bit of screaming in the beginning, but it died immediately. And for the 40 minutes that he was inside the building, there was absolutely no words said," he said.

"It was white noise. All you could hear was the store music. No words were ever said from him that I could hear and I do not know his motive."

This comes after another mass shooting in the US at a string of massage parlors in Atlanta: Obama & Dems claim massage parlor shootings 'anti-Asian hate crime' & 'white supremacy', despite having no evidence to support that motive