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The suspected gunman who killed 10 people in a mass shooting at
a Boulder, Colorado, grocery store this week was previously
known to the FBI, according to a report.

Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, a 21-year-old from the Denver suburb of
Arvada, was linked to another individual under investigation by
the bureau, The New York Times reported Tuesday, citing law
enforcement officials. No further details were reported.

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Boulder police identified Alissa as the shooting suspect earlier
Tuesday. He has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree
murder and booked into the Boulder County Jail.

Alissa had bought an AR-15-style rifle on March 16, six days
before 10 people, including a police officer, were gunned down
Monday at a King Soopers grocery in Boulder, according to an
arrest affidavit. It was not immediately known where the suspect
purchased the weapon.

One of the victims was veteran Boulder Police Officer Eric
Talley. The others were identified as Denny Stong, 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.

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After the shooting, a woman who identified herself as the sister-
in-law of Alissa, told police she saw him "playing" with a gun
that looked like a "machine gun" and took it away from him two
days before the deadly rampage, the affidavit said.

Investigators have not established a motive for the attack, said
Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty.

Law enforcement and a former high school wrestling teammate have
described Alissa as someone prone to sudden rage.

When he was a high school senior in 2018, Alissa was found
guilty of assaulting a fellow student in class, according to a
police affidavit.

Alissa "got up in classroom, walked over to the victim & ‘cold
cocked’ him in the head," the affidavit read. Alissa complained
that the student had made fun of him and called him "racial
names" weeks earlier. An Arvada police report on the incident
said the victim was bloodied and vomiting after the assault.
Alissa was suspended from school and sentenced to probation and
community service.

Angel Hernandez, a former high school wrestling teammate, said
Alissa got enraged after losing a match in practice once,
yelling he would kill everyone. Hernandez said the coach kicked
Alissa off the team for the outburst.

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"He was one of those guys with a short fuse," Hernandez told The
Associated Press. "Once he gets mad, it’s like something takes
over and it’s not him. There is no stopping him at that point."

A law enforcement official briefed on the shooting said the
suspect’s family told investigators they believed Alissa was
suffering some type of mental illness, including delusions.

Relatives described times when Alissa told them people were
following or chasing him, which they said may have contributed
to the violence, the official said.

Hernandez said Alissa also would act strangely sometimes,
turning around suddenly or glancing over his shoulder. "He would
say, ‘Did you see that? Did you see that?’" Hernandez recalled.
"We wouldn’t see anything. We always thought he was messing with
us."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-mass-shooting-suspect-known-
to-fbi
 

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