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BOULDER, Colo. – A gunman opened fire in a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, on Monday, killing 10 people, including a police officer, before being arrested, marking the second deadly mass shooting in the United States in less than a week.
Police provided few immediate details of the shooting and no known motives for the violence, which unfolded around 3 p.m. at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, a north central Colorado city in the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains. about 28 miles km) northwest of Denver.
Frantic shoppers and employees fled for refuge through the supermarket when law enforcement officers stormed the scene, located about 2 miles from the University of Colorado’s flagship campus.
Sarah Moonshadow, 42, a customer and Boulder resident who was at the store with her son, Nicholas, recounted scenes of chaos when shots were heard from inside the store.
“We were in the box and the shots started going off,” Moonshadow told Reuters. “And I said, ‘Nicholas, come down.’ And Nicholas crouched down. And we started listening and there, just repetitive takes … and I just said, ‘Nicholas, run.’
Ms. Moonshadow said she tried to help a victim she saw lying on the sidewalk just outside the store, but her son took her away and said, ‘We have to go.’ The woman began to sob. and added: “I couldn’t help anyone.”
The bloodshed came less than a week after gun violence last Tuesday that killed eight people, including six Asian women, in three-day spas in and around Atlanta. A 21-year-old man has been charged with those killings.
Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold said 10 people were killed in the attack at the King Soopers supermarket. Among them was 51-year-old police officer Eric Talley, an 11-year veteran of the Boulder police force, who said he was the first officer on the scene.
Police said the alleged attacker was believed to be the only seriously injured individual who survived the bloodshed. He was not publicly identified.
Video footage of the scene previously broadcast by television stations showed a bearded, shirtless man in boxer shorts being carried out of the store in handcuffs, before being placed on a stretcher and loaded into an ambulance. The detained man appeared to have a bloody leg and was limping as he walked.
A man who said he was shopping inside the store with his wife told KCNC-TV that he heard three loud blows that took as gunshots and ran through the store with other customers to escape through a loading dock at the rear of the building. .
He said the apparent shots sounded like they were coming from the checkout area at the front of the store.
Authorities gave few details about how the shooting unfolded. Commander Kerry Yamaguchi of the Boulder Police Department told reporters several hours after the fact that investigators were beginning to process the crime scene.
“Boulder suffered a terrible and gruesome mass shooting today,” Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty said at a news conference later that night.
Video images taken by a viewer and posted on social media show two bodies in the grocery store parking lot, before the person with the camera walks in and films a third body there, while three background shots are heard.
The Table Mesa area of Boulder where the shooting occurred is home to a residential neighborhood and the hilltop laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Police declined to say what type of weapon was used, but the Denver Post reported that initial emergency calls to 911 described the suspect’s firearms as a “patrol rifle.” – Reuters
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