They identified the shooter from the state supermarket …

U.S. police have revealed that a 21-year-old was behind the Colorado supermarket shooting in which ten people died. Identified as Ahmad Alissa |, the attacker is hospitalized with a gunshot wound to his leg, from which he would recover shortly before being transferred to prison.

The filming, arrived Monday at dawn at the supermarket King Soopers de Boulder, renewed the debate on the need to limit the possession of weapons in the United States. The victims were between 20 and 65 years old.

According to CNN and other American media, the man was armed with an AR-15 assault rifle, a weapon often used in this type of murder, a recurring evil in the United States.

The commissioner added that police officers fought with Alissa inside the supermarket and that a 51-year-old policeman, Eric Talley, a father of seven, was killed in the shootout.

It is seventh mass shooting of the year in the United States, according to a database compiled by USA Today and Northeastern University.

House Speaker Democrat Nancy Pelosi sent a message to the families of the victims. “Action is needed to prevent this scourge from continuing to ravage our communities,” Pelosi said.

“My heart breaks to see this indescribable incident happening in our community of Boulder” for his part appointed Governor of Colorado, Jared Polis. “Words cannot do justice to the tragedy that happened this afternoon,” Boulder Mayor Sam Weaver tweeted.

The shooting comes days after another 21-year-old killed eight people last week in attacks on several Asian-American-owned massage parlors in the southeastern state of Georgia.

Then, in 2012, a heavily armed man broke into a theater showing a Batman movie in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 people. The perpetrator is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.