Flowers are placed on the fence around the King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, March 22, 2021, following the shooting.
The suspect in the fatal shooting in Boulder, Colorado, U.S., was identified Tuesday (23) as 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa. He faces 10 counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.
Alissa, of the Denver suburb of Arvada, was armed with an AR semi-automatic rifle and a handgun when he stormed a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder on Monday, killing 10 people, the youngest 20 and the oldest 65, including a police officer.
On Tuesday afternoon, Elisa was transported to the county jail pending an initial court appearance.
According to ABC News investigative reporter Aaron Katersky, Alyssa came to the United States from Syria when he was 3 years old and became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
“One America News Network” (OANN) reporter Jack Posobiec revealed that an anonymous White House official said Tuesday that Alyssa supported the Middle East extremist group “ISIS “.
According to a now-deleted screenshot of Alisa’s Facebook page, he is a Muslim, advocates for increased refugee admissions, is anti-Trump and has shared anti-Trump content.
According to court documents and police reports, Alyssa has prior convictions. in February 2018, Alyssa assaulted a fellow high school classmate, which constitutes third-degree assault. He pleaded guilty in March of that year and was sentenced to probation and 48 hours of community service.
Arvada police Detective Dave Snelling also confirmed that the local department has had at least two encounters with Alyssa in the past few years, including about simple assault and criminal mischief, but no further details were immediately available.
Former President Trump imposed a travel ban on a range of countries long plagued by terrorism, including Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Venezuela, North Korea, Nigeria, Myanmar, Eritrea, Sudan, Tanzania and Kyrgyzstan.In June 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the travel ban was constitutional.
Despite the constitutionality of Trump’s travel ban, Biden chose to put an end to it. Within the first few hours of taking office, he opened immigration access to Syria.
Earlier this year, the U.S. State Department halted its daily reporting on refugee resettlement. During former President Barack Obama’s administration in 2015, refugee admissions from Syria exploded. From 2015 to 2019, more than 21,450 Syrian refugees permanently settled in the United States and more than 35,000 Syrian nationals obtained green cards.
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