Authorities said Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa was from the Denver suburb of Arvada and he engaged in a shootout with police on Monday afternoon (local time) inside the Boulder store. Authorities identified the suspected shooter as Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, from the Denver suburb of Arvada. Photo / Supplied, via APA law enforcement official briefed on the shooting told The Associated Press the gunman used an AR-15 rifle, a lightweight semiautomatic rifle. President Joe Biden has ordered flags be lowered to half-mast nationwide in response to the shooting in Boulder, Colorado. Kiefer Johnson places a bouquet of flowers into a makeshift fence put up around the parking lot outside a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 23, 2021 17:48 UTC