DENVER
A man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket surrendered after being shot by a police officer who waited for him to come into view down a store aisle, according new information about the shooting released Thursday.
The details were contained in a district attorney’s report that found Boulder officer Richard Steidell was justified in shooting Ahmad Alissa and said his shots stopped the attack.
“Officer Steidell’s shots were the last ones fired by anyone inside the King Soopers on March 22,” District Attorney Michael Dougherty said in the report.
Alissa is accused of killing nine shoppers and workers inside and outside the store as well as Officer Eric Talley, one of the first three police officers who entered the store. He also was charged with attempted first-degree murder after authorities said shots were fired at 19 other people, including 11 law enforcement officers.
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Police from numerous jurisdictions responded Monday after a gunman opened fire inside a King Soopers grocery store on Table Mesa Road in Boulder, killing at least 10 people, including a Boulder Police officer. A man is in police custody after the attack.
The Boulder Police officer who entered a crowded grocery store where a gunman had already killed multiple people and shot the man in the right thigh will not be criminally prosecuted.
A decision letter from Boulder District Attorney Michael Dougherty released Thursday justifies the actions of Officer Richard Steidell who, along with almost a dozen other officers, exchanged gunfire with the man who reportedly killed 10 people inside the King Soopers store and in the parking lot.
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Murder-in-the-first-degree charges involving the victims take up counts one through ten. Counts eleven through 41 are complaints related to criminal attempts to commit murder, most of them paired.
For example, count eleven reads: On or about March 22, 2021, by engaging in conduct constituting a substantial step toward the commission of murder in the first degree, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa unlawfully, feloniously, after deliberation, and with the intent to cause the death of a person other than himself attempted to cause the death of Patrick Kruse; in violation of specific Colorado criminal code sections.
Count twelve builds on this foundation: On or about March 22, 2021, by engaging in conduct constituting a substantial step toward the commission of murder in the first degree, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa unlawfully and feloniously, under circumstances evidencing an attitude of universal malice manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life generally, knowingly engaged in cond