10 people killed in Colorado supermarket shooting: Police

A shooting at a Colorado supermarket killed 10 people Monday including a police officer who was the first to respond to the scene authorities saidPolice arrested a suspect but didnt reveal his name or any details about the shooting at an evening news conference where Boulder police Chief Maris Herold fought back tearsInvestigators had just begun sorting through evidence and witness interviews and didnt have details on a motive for the shooting at the King Soopers store in Boulder which is about 25 miles 40 kilometers northwest of Denver and home to the University of Colorado said Boulder County District Attorney Michael DoughertyldquoThis is a tragedy and a nightmare for Boulder Countyrdquo Dougherty said ldquoThese were people going about their day doing their shopping I promise the victims and the people of the state of Colorado that we will secure justiceThe attack was the seventh mass killing this year in the US following the March 16 shooting that left eight people dead at three Atlantaarea massage businesses according to a database compiled by The Associated Press USA Today and Northeastern UniversityIt follows a lull in mass killings during the pandemic in 2020 which had the smallest number of such attacks in more than a decade according to the database which tracks mass killings defined as four or more dead not including the shooterThe slain officer was identified as Eric Talley 51 who had been with Boulder police since 2010 Herold said He went to the store after a call about shots fired and someone carrying a rifle she saidldquoHe was by all accounts one of the outstanding officers of the Boulder Police Department and his life was cut too shortrdquo Dougherty said of TalleyIdentities of the other nine victims were not disclosed Monday night as police were still notifying their family membersMatthew Kirsch the acting US attorney for Colorado pledged that iquestthe full weight of federal law enforcementiquest will support the investigation He said investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives were at the crime scene along with FBI agentsOfficers had escorted a shirtless man with blood running down his leg out of the store in handcuffs but authorities would not say if he was the suspect They did say the suspect was receiving medical care and was the only person injured who did not dieOfficials have not said whether the suspect is the person who was taken from the shooting scene to Foothills Hospital in Boulder The hospital will not release any further information on the patient said Rich Sheehan spokesman for Boulder Community Health which operates the hospitalDean Schiller told The Associated Press that he had just left the supermarket when he heard gunshots and saw three people lying face down two in the parking lot and one near the doorway He said he ldquocouldnt tell if they were breathingVideo posted on YouTube showed one person on the floor inside the store and two more outside on the ground What sounds like two gunshots are also heard at the beginning of the videoLaw enforcement vehicles and officers massed outside the store including SWAT teams and at least three helicopters landed on the roof Some windows at the front of the store were brokenAt one point authorities said over a loudspeaker that the building was surrounded and that ldquoyou need to surrenderSarah Moonshadow told the Denver Post that two shots rang out just after she and her son Nicolas Edwards finished buying strawberries She said she told her son to get down and then lsquowe just ranrsquoOnce they got outside she said they saw a body in the parking lot Edwards said police were speeding into the lot and pulled up next to the bodyldquoI knew we couldnt do anything for the guyrdquo he said ldquoWe had to gordquo James Bentz told the Post that he was in the meat section when he heard what he thought was a misfire then a series of popsldquoI was then at the front of a stampederdquo he saidBentz said he jumped off a loading dock out back to escape and that younger people were helping older people off of itColorado Gov Jared Polis tweeted a statement that his ldquoheart is breaking as we watch this unspeakable event unfold in our Boulder community Police had told people to shelter in place amid a report of an ldquoarmed dangerous individualrdquo about 3 miles 5 kilometers away from the grocery store but said at the news conference later that it wasnt related to the shootingWhite House press secretary Jen Psaki tweeted that President Joe Biden had been briefed on the shootingThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever