Denver American shooter and his AR-15 fire up gun control

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The suspect in the murders of 10 people at a Boulder, Colo., grocery store — the second mass shooting to shake the country in less than a week — is a 21-year-old man from a nearby Denver suburb who used an AR-15 type of assault rifle, law enforcement officials said. The police in Arvada, Colo., said they had two encounters in 2018 with the suspect, identified on Tuesday as Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, of Arvada — one on a report of third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, and one of criminal mischief. It is not clear if he was convicted of a crime. The suspect’s identity was known to the F.B.I. because he was linked to another individual under investigation by the bureau, according to law enforcement officials. Among the victims of the massacre on Monday was Officer Eric Talley, 51, with the Boulder Police Department, who had responded to a “barrage” of 911 calls about the shooting, Chief Maris Herold said. The authorities identified the nine additional victims as Denny Strong, 20; Neven Stanisic, 23; Rikki Olds, 25; Tralona Bartkowiak, 49; Suzanne Fountain, 59; Teri Leiker, 51; Kevin Mahoney, 61; Lynn Murray, 62; and Jody Waters, 65. Chief Herold said at a news conference that police officers had run into the King Soopers grocery store within minutes of the shooting and had shot at the suspect. No other officers were injured during the response, she said. She said Mr. Alissa was taken to a hospital for treatment of a leg injury, and would be taken to jail on Tuesday. He was charged on Tuesday with 10 counts of first-degree murder. Officials gave no indication of a motive. A Facebook page that appeared to belong to the suspect, giving his name as Ahman Al Issa, said he was born in Syria in 1999 and went to Arvada West High School, where he was a wrestler, and listed wrestling and kickboxing as being among his interests. Michael Dougherty, the Boulder County district attorney, said the suspect had “lived most of his life in the United States.” The Facebook page said he had studied computer engineering at Metro University Denver, but it was not clear if he was a current student. The page was taken down within an hour of Mr. Alissa’s name being released by the authorities. The shooting came just six days after another gunman’s deadly shooting spree at massage parlors in the Atlanta area. “read more @ NYT"........