Colorado: 10 Dead Including a Boulder Police Officer in Grocery Store Mass Shooting

Posted on March 23, 2021
The suspected gunman is led away from the scene of the shooting. (Twitter)

UPDATED: 3/23/21  9:53AM

A 25-year-old woman was among the 10 victims slain in the Boulder supermarket massacre, her family said.

Rikki Olds, of Lafayette, died in the shooting rampage Monday afternoon at a King Soopers location in southern Boulder, according to online posts from relatives.

“We lost our beloved Rikki Olds to the monster who shot up the king soopers in Boulder CO yesterday may his rotten ass fry and burn in hell,” her aunt Lori Olds wrote on Facebook.

The Boulder, CO Police Chief f Maris Herold named all victims:

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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A shooting at a crowded Colorado supermarket that killed 10 people, including the first police officer to arrive, sent terrorized shoppers and workers scrambling for safety and stunned a state that has grieved several mass killings. A lone suspect was in custody, authorities said.

Hundreds of police officers from throughout the Denver metropolitan area responded to the Monday afternoon

Eric Talley, 51, slain Boulder, Colorado police officer. (Twitter)

 attack, converging on a King Soopers supermarket in a busy shopping plaza in southern Boulder. SWAT officers carrying ballistic shields slowly approached the store as others quickly escorted frightened people away from the building, some of its windows shattered.

Customers and employees fled through a back loading dock to safety. Others took refuge in nearby shops.   Among the dead was the first Boulder, Colorado police officer on the scene, 51-year-old Eric Talley.   Talley who had been with Boulder police since 2010.

One suspect was in custody, a tearful Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold said late Monday. Authorities didn’t identify the suspect.

Officers had escorted a shirtless man in handcuffs, blood running down his leg, from the store during the siege.

Authorities would not say if he was the suspect. Foothills Hospital in Boulder was treating one person from the shooting scene but refused further comment, said Rich Sheehan, spokesman for Boulder Community Health, which operates the hospital.

“This is a tragedy and a nightmare for Boulder County,” Dougherty said. “These were people going about their day, doing their shopping. I promise the victims and the people of the state of Colorado that we will secure justice.”

Identities of the other nine victims were not disclosed as police were still notifying their family members.

The attack in Boulder stunned a state that has seen several mass shootings, including the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and the 2012 Aurora movie theater shooting.

The gunman was allegedly armed with an assault rifle.

Just a week ago, the NRA applauded a move by a Colorado judge who on March 12, blocked Boulder from enforcing its two-year-old assault rifle ban, ruling it violated a 2003 state law prohibiting municipalities from enacting their own firearms regulations.

In a tweet, the National Rifle Association said it was something for law-abiding gun owners to celebrate:

 

 

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