The author of the Colorado massacre has been identified as Ahmad Alissa

Boulder police on Tuesday identified the perpetrator of the Colorado massacre as Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, accused of killing 10 people in a supermarket in the city.

Authorities said the subject, a resident of City of Arvada, was arrested at 3:28 p.m. local time, 48 minutes after police arrived at the scene after emergency calls. During the clash, an agent was killed and the attacker was injured.

This is the first official image released by authorities in Boulder:

In addition, they reported the identity of the victims, aged 20, 23, 25, 49, 59, 51, 51, 61, 62 and 65. In the early morning, the police contacted the families.

Alissa, According to a Facebook profile, he studied at Arvada West High School and was currently a computer science student at Denver Metropolitan University (MSU).

In this account, which has already been eliminated by the social network, contacts with the same last name claim to be from Syria. Besides sharing phrases from the Prophet Muhammad, he enjoys wrestling. “Lived most of his life in the United StatesThe authorities said at a press conference.

Police said it would be “Premature” to disclose assumptions about the motive of the attack, while investigations continue. For now, the investigation maintains that he is the sole perpetrator of the massacre.

The accused remains in hospital, recovering from his bullet wounds in the leg in stable condition, and upon his release, possibly on Tuesday, he will be transferred to prison.

After more than a year – which coincided with that of the pandemic – without a major shootout in the United States, the one in Boulder is the second in just six days following last week’s attacks on Asian massage parlors in Atlanta that left eight people dead and received extensive media coverage.

The one in Boulder became the largest mass shooting in the United States since August 2019, when a gunman killed 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.

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