s5 online casino Gunman Convicted of Murdering 10 at a Colorado Supermarket

The man who fatally shot 10 people at a Boulder, Colo., grocery store in 2021 was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison on Monday. Jurors rejected his lawyers’ argument that mental illness had made him unable to distinguish right from wrong.

The verdict followed about two weeks of testimony that focused on the mind-set of the gunman, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, at the time of the shooting. Mr. Alissa, now 25, was diagnosed with schizophrenia after the attack.

His lawyers admitted that he had carried out the shooting, but they said he was so unwell at the time that he could not know that what he was doing was wrong.

The shooting on March 22, 2021, took place at a King Soopers supermarket, less than a week after another mass shooting at spas in the Atlanta area. The victims in Colorado ranged in age from 20 to 65. They included the first police officer to arrive at the scene, store employees and shoppers.

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Jurors deliberated for about six hours over two days before coming to their unanimous conclusion. By state law, the 10 convictions of first-degree murder, including the murder of a police officer, meant Judge Ingrid S. Bakke had to sentence Mr. Alissa to life in prison. She gave him 10 consecutive life sentences, with no possibility of parole.

Mr. Alissa, who has been in custody since the shooting, wore a striped dress shirt and khaki pants in court on Friday. While the guilty verdicts were being read, he bit his nails and conferred with members of his defense team. Later, at sentencing, he returned handcuffed and wearing an orange and white jail outfit.

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