A Boulder County judge will soon read the verdict for the man who fatally shot 10 people in 2021.
BOULDER, Colo. — A Boulder County jury found the man who shot and killed 10 people at a King Soopers in 2021 guilty of all 10 first-degree murder charges.
The judge began reading the verdict at 1:25 p.m. The jury started deliberations on Friday afternoon.
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Ahmad Alissa faces 10 counts of first-degree murder, 38 counts of attempted first-degree murder, one count of first-degree assault, six counts of felony possession of a prohibited large capacity magazine, and 38 crime-of-violence sentence enhancers in the March 22, 2021, shooting at King Soopers at 3600 Table Mesa Drive in Boulder.
Ten people were killed that day: Neven Stanisic, 23; Tralona Bartkowiak, 49; Denny Stong, 20; Teri Leiker, 51; Suzanne Fountain, 59; Kevin Mahoney, 61; Lynn Murray, 62; Jody Waters, 65; Rikki Olds, 25, and Boulder Police Officer Eric Talley, 51.
Defense attorneys don’t dispute that the defendant, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, was the shooter. They have argued he is not guilty by reason of insanity, alleging that he didn’t know the difference between right and wrong when he pulled the trigger.
The case stalled for more than two years after multiple doctors reported that the shooter was not mentally competent to stand trial, meaning he could not understand the proceedings and assist in his own defense.
After treatment and medication, the judge ruled in the fall of 2023 that the man’s competency had been restored.
If the jury finds him guilty of any of the murder charges, the shooter would be sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance of parole. If he were to be found not guilty by reason of insanity, he would be committed to a mental institution and treated until he was deemed no longer a danger to himself or others.
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