The day after a mass shooting at a Boulder King Soopers in March 2021, police released the names of the 10 victims. We spoke with friends, family members and colleagues of the people taken too soon, and have compiled stories of their lives.
Boulder police released the names of the 10 victims on Tuesday morning. We have spent the day speaking with friends, family members and colleagues of the people taken too soon on Monday, and have compiled stories of their lives.
âI Know Sheâs Gone, but Why?â: Love and Loss at a Boulder Grocery Store
Funerals for the victims of the mass shooting in Colorado were being held this week. Teri Leiker, a beloved employee at the King Soopers store for 31 years, was among them.
A memorial at the King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colo., where a gunman killed 10 people in March.Credit.Stephen Speranza for The New York Times
April 9, 2021, 5:48 p.m. ET
BOULDER, Colo. â Teri Leiker and Clint Ponsford shared a love story that began and ended at the grocery store.
They spent more than 30 years working at the same King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, where Ms. Leiker charmed customers with her big laugh and Mr. Ponsford could spot the peaks of the Flatirons when he went outside to wrangle shopping carts. They had both competed in Coloradoâs Special Olympics and helped each other get through a lot: deaths, a breakup and the challenges of navigating this world as two people with cognitive disa
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Emotional photos show the massive, makeshift memorial outside the King Soopers in Boulder, Colorado, where 10 people died in a mass shooting
Emotional photos show the massive, makeshift memorial outside the King Soopers in Boulder, Colorado, where 10 people died in a mass shooting
Sarah Al-ArshaniApr 3, 2021, 09:53 IST
The scene at the memorial of the King Soopers in Boulder, Colorado, on April 2, 2021. Ten people died in a mass shooting at the store on March 22, 2021.Courtesy of David Kalish
A massive makeshift
Ten people died at the supermarket after a gunman opened fire on March 22.
Police arrested Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa and charged him with 10 counts of first-degree murder.
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