CLICK HERE if you’re having trouble viewing this gallery on a mobile device.
Boulder shooting: Suspect bought gun 6 days earlier; 10 victims range from 20 to 65 years old
A 21-year-old man from Arvada, Colorado, was arrested on 10 counts of first-degree murder after opening fire in a Boulder grocery store Monday afternoon, The Denver Post reported.
The suspected gunman, identified Tuesday, surrendered to police after being shot in the leg. He wore a tactical vest and carried a handgun and a long gun — a Ruger AR-556 — that he had purchased six days earlier, according to the arrest warrant affidavit.
Police publicly identified the 10 victims Tuesday morning:
Denny Stong, 20Neven Stanisic, 23Rikki Olds, 25, who worked as a manager at the storeTralona Bartkowiak, 49Teri Leiker, 51Eric Talley, 51, who was the first Boulder police officer on sceneSuzanne Fountain, 59Kevin Mahoney, 61Lynn Murray, 62Jodi Waters, 65
Biden on gun violence in the US: ‘We have to act’
In brief remarks responding to Monday’s shooting, President Joe Biden urged Congress to move quickly to close the loopholes in the background check system and also to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, the Associated Press reported.
“It should not be a partisan issue,” Biden said Tuesday. “This is an American issue. It will save lives, American lives.”
Colorado attack is the 7th mass shooting in 7 days in the US
The Boulder supermarket shooting “took place less than a week after eight people were killed in a series of attacks on spas in Atlanta,” reported CNN. “They are also among at least seven mass shootings in the past week across the United States — including three incidents on Saturday alone.”
The FBI defines a mass shooting as an incident which results in four or more casualties (dead or wounded) excluding the shooter(s).
For more political cartoons, CLICK HERE.
Join the Conversation
We invite you to use our commenting platform to engage in insightful conversations about issues in our community. We reserve the right at all times to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law, regulation, or government request. We might permanently block any user who abuses these conditions.