Boulder supermarket shooting suspect Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa narrowly avoided jail in 2018 on a misdemeanor assault charge in which a judge told him: “The world is full of people who do and say things that get us all angry, and you can’t always control that. But what you can control is how you respond.”
That’s according to the transcript obtained by the Denver Gazette of Alissa’s April 11, 2018 sentencing hearing in Jefferson County Court. Judge Harold Sargent sentenced Alissa to a year probation, 48 hours of community service, anger management classes and restitution to victim Alex Kimose.
Alissa, 22, faces more than 50 charges of first-degree murder and attempted murder in the March 22 massacre of 10 people at a Boulder King Soopers, including a Boulder Police officer. He is being held without bail at an undisclosed location after he was moved from the Boulder County Jail for security reasons.