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The Boulder County District Attorney s office on Monday filed additional murder charges against the man accused of killing nearly a dozen people at a Boulder, Colorado, grocery store in March.
Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 22, was first charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder following the March 22 shooting rampage at King Soopers, which left 10 people dead.
On Monday, Alissa was charged with 13 additional attempted murder counts and dozens of sentence enhancers. The additional charges names eight new victims of attempted murder, people who were around the store when the suspect opened fire. He now faces 115 criminal charges for his alleged role in the shooting, including 47 crime-of-violence sentence enhancers.
The Boulder police officer who shot the man suspected of killing 10 people in March at a King Soopers was legally justified, the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday
The term was originally used to implement to voter suppression, Rosemarie Allen, Metropolitan State University of Denver associate professor, explained.
Colorado’s law bans the sale, transfer and possession of magazines holding more than 15 rounds
It went into effect on July 1, 2013. Known as House Bill 13-1224 while it worked its way through the legislature, the large-capacity magazine ban was part of a package of gun restrictions that also implemented a universal background check requirement for purchases and required buyers to pay the background check fee. In reaction, voters successfully recalled two Democratic state senators who supported the laws, Sen. John Morse of District 11 and Angela Giron of District 3.
But DIY assembly kits have provided a loophole in Colorado
A series of undercover investigations by 9News revealed gun stores in several Colorado counties selling disassembled large-capacity magazines in parts after the ban went into effect.
DA: Colorado shooting suspect had 10 high-capacity magazines
COLLEEN SLEVIN and JAMES ANDERSON, Associated Press
April 22, 2021
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1of5FILE - In this March 26, 2021, file photo, mourners walk the temporary fence line outside the parking lot of a King Soopers grocery store, the site of a mass shooting in Boulder, Colo. Colorado prosecutors have filed over 40 more felony charges against the man charged with killing 10 people at the Boulder supermarket last month including allegations he used a large capacity magazine that had been banned by state lawmakers in 2013 in response to mass shootings.David Zalubowski/APShow MoreShow Less
2of5FILE - In this Thursday, March 25, 2021, file photo, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa appears before Boulder District Court Judge Thomas Mulvahill at the Boulder County Justice Center in Boulder, Colo. On Wednesday, April 21, 2021, prosecutors filed over 40 more felony charges against Alissa, who is charged with killing 10 pe