![]() His parents eventually opened a restaurant, Sultan Grill, in Arvada, according to Colorado business records.Īlissa's brother, Ali Aliwi Alissa, told The Daily Beast that Ahmad had acted paranoid and that it got worse when he started high school. "We are going to do everything in our power to make sure this suspect has a thorough trial," Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold said on Tuesday.Īlissa's family immigrated to the US from Syria in 2002, when he was a toddler. ![]() The victims in the shooting have been identified as Denny Stong, 20 Neven Stanisic, 23 Rikki Olds, 25 Tralona Bartkowiak, 49 Suzanne Fountain, 59 Teri Leiker, 51 Eric Talley, 51, a police officer Kevin Mahoney, 61 Lynn Murray, 62 and Jody Waters, 65. He has been charged with 10 counts of murder and is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.Īhmad Al Aliwi Alissa, whom police identified as the suspect in the mass shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, on Monday, lived most of his life in suburban Colorado and had a temper, those who know him told reporters.Īlissa, 21, was injured in the shooting and is in stable condition, the police said. Some who knew Alissa in school remember him for his temper. Police identified Ahmad Alissa, 21, as the suspect in the mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado.Īlissa is accused of gunning down 10 people at a King Soopers market on Monday. It’s not exactly news, of course, but surely we are at the point in which it is insane to deny the bigotry and bias of our ruling class and the institutions they administer.Ahmad Alissa is accused of killing 10 people in a Boulder, Colorado, mass shooting. This is how the power-holders in this society think. We will not have universities issuing statements of sorrow and solidarity with the victims in Boulder, because ordinary white people who died at the hands of a Muslim gunman are not useful politically: If no evidence emerges that these killings were racially motivated, we will not hear NPR stories arguing that even though there is no evidence that these killings were racially motivated, they might well have been, because professors know better than police.Īnd not just the media. In that case, the media chose to serve the Narrative instead of truth. This is not the standard the media applied to the white male Southern Baptist shooter of Asians in Georgia, of course. From what we know at this point, there is no reason to blame his religion or his political views for what he did, nor is there reason to blame race hatred. We are seeing no speculation as to whether or not anti-white racism played a role in this crime.Īnd you know what? The media are being responsible here. All ten of Ahmad Alissa’s victims are white. ![]() Here is what we are not seeing from the media: rash speculation about whether Islam drove him to murder, or whether Trump Derangement Syndrome had anything to do with this attack. He posted a lot on social media about his religion, Islam.He was “deeply disturbed,” “very anti-social,” and “paranoid,” according to his brother.Though Boulder police have stated no known motive yet for this crime, here is some of what we know about Boulder shooter Ahmad Alissa:
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