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And his misfortune! The defendant in the Boulder Colorado shooting is of “Syrian” origin. Ahmed Al-Alaiwi Al-Issa, 21 years old. We will see what the coverage will be like now.
– Al Nassr FC 💛💙 | Fahad (@ lfm_sa4) March 23, 2021
This appeared on major news network coverage from “NBC News” to “CNN,” in addition to the accompanying coverage of the scene in major newspapers as well. President Joe Biden called for action on gun control, saying from Washington: “We are still awaiting more information about the shooter, his motives, the weapons he used” in the attack that killed 10 people with bullets in Boulder, Colorado.
Biden added: “I don’t need to wait another minute to take reasonable steps that will save lives in the future and urge my colleagues in the House and Senate to act. We can ban assault rifles and high-powered bullet safes. in this country”. again. I did it when I was a senator. “”.
In Colorado, local laws state that carrying weapons such as handguns does not require a license. The issue of the proliferation of weapons in the country is considered a controversial and divisive issue between the Democratic and Republican parties. It is also a ubiquitous topic in the American media, not only in Hollywood movies, but also in American music, including the song “God Control” by the most famous pop icon, Madonna.
The city of Boulder announced a ban on “machine gun type weapons” and important servers after shooting at a high school in Parkland “17 people were killed in Florida in 2018, but according to the” Denver Post “a judge suspended this ban last week. last, in a decision that welcomed the “National Rifle Association,” America’s firearms lobby.
In a related context, the US authorities revealed the identity of the suspect in the attack, Ahmed Al-Alaiwi Al-Issa (21 years old), according to CNN, who cited his brother Ali (34 years old) that his brother suffered from. mental illness and being exposed, being bullied in high school because of his name, and being a Muslim, which may be the reason he’s “antisocial.”
Boulder Shooting Update March 23, 8:30 a.m. BOULDER, Colorado – Dozens of agencies continued to investigate yesterday’s incident …
Posted by the Boulder Police Department on Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Ali, who lives in the same apartment as the suspect, said his brother had been through “paranoia” that there were people chasing him in 2014 to the point that he covered his computer camera so they wouldn’t see him, adding that his brother had no great political or religious interests and that he does not. He hears him threatening to use violence.
According to the FBI, Ahmed was sentenced in 2018 after he was convicted of a third degree assault on one of his schoolmates. Note that his family immigrated to the United States in 2002 and has lived in Colorado since 2014. The local newspaper, The Denver Post, stated in 2017 that Ahmed attacked a classmate at Arvada West High School, when he struck one of his classmates to the head, without warning, then his colleague suffered bruises and a head injury. The newspaper cited witnesses who told police at the time that they did not know why Ahmed hit his colleague, while Ahmed justified his behavior by saying that his colleague “made fun of him and described him with ethnic names.”
Syrian refugee Ahmed Al-Alaiwi Al-Issa is the perpetrator of the attack that killed 10 people in Denver, Colorado. pic.twitter.com/tYnulJZDBP
– Fadi | Fadi (@ fadih) March 23, 2021
Ahmed’s personal Facebook page, which his brother and schoolmate confirmed as authentic, shows posts about his belief that his old high school was hacking his phone. Ahmed wrote in a post on March 18, 2019: “I’m just curious about the laws on phone privacy because I think my old school was hacking my phone.”
“People decided not to mess with him because of his bad temper,” CNN quoted Damian Cruz, who studied with the attacker in fifth grade, saying, “so people chose not to talk to him much about that and other things. Yeah. ., he felt very lonely. ” Analyzing his posts on social media, he indicates that the attack has no political dimensions, although he repeatedly posted criticism on “Facebook” of practices he described as racist, and criticized the authorities for “doing nothing to stop the spread of the gay community. “
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