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FILE PHOTO: Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, suspect of the King Soopers grocery store shooting, appears in a Boulder County District courtroom at the Boulder County Justice Center in Boulder, Colorado, U.S. May 25, 2021. Matthew Jonas\/Boulder Daily Camera\/Handout via REUTERS\/File Photo\u00a9\u00a0Thomson Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Keith Coffman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DENVER (Reuters) -Rejecting an insanity defense, a Colorado jury on Monday convicted a man diagnosed with the severe mental disorder schizophrenia of first-degree murder in a 2021 mass shooting at a grocery store in the city of Boulder that killed 10 people including a police officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FILE PHOTO: Law enforcement officers in tactical gear are seen at the site of a shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, U.S. March 22, 2021. REUTERS\/Kevin Mohatt\/File Photo\u00a9\u00a0Thomson Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 25, had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury instead found the Syria-born man guilty in Boulder District Court on 10 counts of first-degree murder. Jurors also found him guilty on dozens of counts of attempted murder and weapons offenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Colorado, a first-degree murder conviction carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Today, justice is served,” Colorado Governor Jared Polis said in a statement. “Though I know this guilty verdict won’t heal the pain so many of us feel, or bring back those who were killed, I hope that it can provide some peace.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was never in dispute that Alissa carried out the rampage. The case focused on his mental state at the time of the shootings. Under Colorado law, a person must be found to be unable to distinguish between right and wrong for an insanity defense to prevail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities said Alissa was armed with a legally purchased Ruger AR-556 pistol, which resembles an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, when he entered the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, about 30 miles (50 km) northwest of Denver, on March 22, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alissa shot dead two people in the parking lot before entering the store and killing eight others, including a police officer who responded to the shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He is methodical and he is brutal,” District Attorney Michael Dougherty told jurors in closing arguments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The psychologists and psychiatrists who testified during the trial agreed that Alissa was diagnosed as a schizophrenic who was profoundly mentally ill. But that diagnosis alone does not render a person legally insane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This tragedy was born out of disease not choice,” defense attorney Kathryn Herold told the jury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eyewitnesses described Alissa as focused as he opened fire, shooting dead at least two victims at point-blank range after wounding them in the opening salvo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Chen, a pharmacist working that day, testified during the trial that she heard Alissa shriek with delight as he fired his weapon as she and other workers crouched behind a counter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He said, ‘This is fun, this is so much fun,'” Chen testified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alissa was born in Syria and his family emigrated to the United States when he was a small child, settling in a Denver suburb. His parents and some of his siblings testified that in high school Alissa started becoming withdrawn, acting in a paranoid manner and talking to himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s shameful in our culture if we say our son is crazy,” his father, Moustafa Alissa, testified. “We were thinking he was probably possessed by spirits.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alissa did not testify in his own defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mental health workers who interacted with the defendant since his arrest testified that he never articulated a clear motive for the massacre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Reporting by Keith Coffman and Daniel Trotta. Editing by Donna Bryson and Will Dunham)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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