Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa Guilty Of 10 Murders

Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa
Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa

Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa is a killer from Colorado who would murder ten people in a mass shooting at a Boulder grocery story

According to court documents Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa would open fire at the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder in 2021. Ten people would lose their lives with nearly forty others injured

Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia would put forward a defense that he was hearing voices that led to the mass shooting. However authorities would point to his computer history which would show he had been researching mass shootings for months before the Boulder mass shooting

The mass shooter would be found guilty of 10 counts of murder, 38 counts of attempted murder, and weapons charges

Colorado does not have the death penalty so Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa was sentenced to life without parole

Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa Case

The man who killed 10 people in a mass shooting at a Colorado grocery store in 2021 was convicted on Monday of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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.

After relatives of the victims addressed the court, Judge Ingrid Bakke formally gave Alissa the mandatory sentence under Colorado law of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Colorado Governor Jared Polis said in a statement that “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.”
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.

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.
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.

“He is methodical and he is brutal,” District Attorney Michael Dougherty told jurors in closing arguments on Friday.
The psychologists and psychiatrists who testified during the trial that began last month agreed that Alissa was diagnosed as a schizophrenic who was profoundly mentally ill. But that diagnosis alone does not render a person legally insane.
“This tragedy was born out of disease, not choice,” defense attorney Kathryn Herold told the jury.

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.
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.
“He said, ‘This is fun, this is so much fun,'” Chen testified.
Alissa did not testify in his own defense.
Erika Mahoney, whose father Kevin was killed in the shooting, told the court during victim impact statements on Monday that shortly after learning of her father’s murder she envisioned standing in court and facing the gunman.
“I wish the young man behind the gun had received more love in his life, because then maybe none of this would have happened,” Mahoney said.
She recounted other high-profile shootings that have plagued the United States in recent decades, and told the court ahead of Alissa’s sentencing: “To me, justice is putting an end to mass shootings in America.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-who-killed-10-colorado-supermarket-2021-convicted-murder-2024-09-23

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Alexus Nelson Murders 5 Yr Old Daughter

Alexus Nelson
Alexus Nelson

Alexus Nelson is a killer from Colorado who would be convicted of the murder of her five year old daughter

According to court documents the Grandmother of five year old Maha Li would contact Aurora Colorado police telling them that she had not heard from her Granddaughter in a few weeks. When police would go to the home of Alexus Nelson she would tell officers that she had given up her daughter through an adoption center

Officers would contact the adoption agency who would tell them that they had never heard from Alexus Nelson nor did they have a file on Maha Li. Officers would execute a search warrant the next day at Alexus Nelson residence where they would find the charred remains of the little girl in the home

Alexus Nelson would be arrested and charged with the murder of her daughter. Nelson would ultimately plead guilty and would be sentenced to 84 years in prison

Alexus Nelson Case

Alexus Tanielle Nelson, the mother of a 5-year-old child who was reported missing a little more than a year ago in Colorado before the child’s remains were found days later in her apartment, has pleaded guilty to several charges in connection to the case.

Nelson pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, tampering with a deceased body and attempting to influence a public servant. She was sentenced to a total of 84 years in exchange for the plea; 48 years for murder, 24 years for tampering with a deceased body and 12 years for attempting to influence a public servant. The sentence will be served consecutively.

It was the end of May last year when police in Aurora issued an alert for missing 5-year-old Maha Li after the child’s maternal grandmother called 911 from out of state to report that her daughter, Nelson, made concerning statements to them by text. The caller also raised concerns about the safety of her granddaughter.

Officers rushed to Nelson’s apartment in the 1000 block of South Elkhart Way. Nelson told officers she gave up her daughter for adoption but couldn’t provide any records. Investigators couldn’t independently verify the adoption through state records. The child’s grandmother called 911 again two days later and officers followed up again at that time.

Aurora police said that Nelson intentionally gave false statements to officers which prompted Alexus Nelson’s initial arrest for attempting to influence a public servant. The remains of a child were found inside Nelson’s apartment the next evening.

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Kevin Bui Murders 5 In Colorado

Kevin Bui
Kevin Bui

Kevin Bui is a teen killer from Colorado who would set a fatal fire that would lead to the deaths of five people

According to court documents Kevin Bui had his phone stolen and he thought that he had tracked it down using the iPhone find my phone app however he made a tragic mistake

Kevin Bui, Gavin Seymour and Dillon Siebert would go to a store where they would purchase face masks then headed to a Denver Colorado home

The teen killers would break into the home through the back door and would set fire to the home

The fire would quickly spread throughout the home killing Djibril “Jibby” Diol, his 23-year-old wife Adja, and their 21-month-old daughter, Khadija, along with Diol’s sister Hassan and her 6-month-old daughter, Hawa Beye

It turned out that Kevin Bui went to the wrong house as the iPhone app showed a false location

Kevin Bui who was thought to be the ringleader of the group would plead guilty and will be sentenced to sixty years in prison

Gavin Seymour who was also sixteen at the time of the murders would receive a forty year sentence

Dillon Siebert was fourteen at the time of the murders will serve three years in juvenile detention then seven years in state prison

Kevin Bui Case

A Colorado man pleaded guilty to murder charges on Friday for starting a 2020 house fire that killed five members of a Senegalese family out of misplaced revenge for a stolen iPhone that he mistakenly tracked to the house.

Kevin Bui, now 20, was a teenager at the time of the fire but prosecuted as an adult. He has been portrayed by prosecutors as the ringleader of three friends who started the Aug. 5, 2020, fire in the middle of the night in a Denver neighborhood. Bui wrongly believed people who had recently robbed him lived in the home after using an app to track his stolen iPhone to the general area, according to prior testimony in the case.

Bui pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder. A plea deal reached between the defendant and prosecutors proposes a sentence of up to 60 years in prison — 30 years for each count. The maximum penalty for each count of second-degree murder is 48 years and a $1 million fine.

Judge Karen Brody set sentencing for July 2.

Bui was seated at the table with his lawyers during the hearing with his hands cuffed in front of him and wearing a green jail uniform.

He gave perfunctory answers to the judge’s questions as his parents watched from the court gallery and listened to the proceedings as relayed by an interpreter through headphones. Bui’s father told reporters after the hearing that they accepted the plea agreement.

Bui is the last of the three friends to enter a plea in the fire that killed Djibril Diol, 29, and Adja Diol, 23, and their 22-month-old daughter, Khadija Diol. Their relative, Hassan Diol, 25, and her 6-month-old daughter Hawa Beye were also killed. Three other people escaped by jumping from the second floor of the home, breaking some bones.

No relatives of the victims were in court, but they watched the proceedings online, said Ousman Ba, program coordinator of the African Leadership Group who is a spokesperson for the family of Djibril Diol and Adja Diol. He also consults with Amadou Beye, whose wife and daughter were killed.

The families supported the deal even though they had originally hoped to see Bui sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, Ba said. It is the harshest sentence available in Colorado since it abolished the death penalty and is the automatic punishment for a first-degree murder conviction. However, since people who commited crimes as juveniles are treated differently and allowed parole, the families believed that this plea agreement was the best option to resolve this case after nearly four years, he said.

“We are Muslims. We do believe justice will be served by Allah, our maker,” said Ba, who thanked prosecutors for keeping the families informed about the case.

One of the counts of second-murder that Bui pleaded guilty to was for killing Dijibril and Adja Diol and their child. The other is for killing Hassan Diol and her baby. Sixty other charges Bui had faced, including first-degree murder, attempted murder, arson and burglary, were dropped by prosecutors under the plea deal.

Last year, Dillon Siebert, who was 14 at the time of the fire, was sentenced to three years in juvenile detention and seven years in a state prison program for young inmates. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder under a deal that prosecutors and the defense said balanced his lesser role in planning the fire, his remorse and interest in rehabilitation with the horror of the crime.

In March, Gavin Seymour, 19, was sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of second-degree murder.

Seymour and Bui pleaded guilty after a failed effort to get the internet search history evidence that led to their arrests thrown out.

The investigation of the fire dragged on for months without any leads. Surveillance video showed three suspects wearing full face masks and dark hoodies. Fears that the blaze had been a hate crime led many Senegalese immigrants to install security cameras at their homes in case they could also be targeted.

Without anything else to go on, police eventually obtained a search warrant asking Google for which IP addresses had searched the home’s address within 15 days of the fire. Five of the IP addresses found were based in Colorado, and police obtained the names of those people through another search warrant. After investigating those people, police eventually identified Bui, Seymour and Siebert as suspects. They were arrested about five months after the fire.

In October, the Colorado Supreme Court upheld the search of Google users’ keyword history, an approach that critics have called a digital dragnet that threatens to undermine people’s privacy and their constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.

However, the court cautioned it was not making a “broad proclamation” on the constitutionality of such warrants and emphasized it was ruling on the facts of just this case

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/man-sought-revenge-stolen-phone-pleads-guilty-fire-killed-senegalese-f-rcna152897

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Joseph Castorena Murders 4 In Colorado

Joseph Castorena
Joseph Castorena

Joseph Castorena is a killer from Colorado who would be convicted of four murders near Denver

According to court documents Joseph Castorena would break into the home of his ex girlfriend and while the woman was on the phone with police the 911 operator would hear shots ring out. Apparently the ex girlfriend had filed a restraining order against Castorena a week later

The ex girlfriend and her children were not harmed in the shooting

Joseph Castorena would shoot and kill Maria Serrano, Jesus Serrano, Kenneth Luque, and Rudolfo Perez and injure another person

Before police would arrive Joseph Castorena would flee the area and head to Mexico where he would be arrested months later

Joseph Castorena would be extradited back to Colorado where he was ultimately convicted of four counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. He will be sentenced at a later date

Joseph Castorena Case

A man was convicted Thursday of killing four people at his ex-girlfriend’s home in suburban Denver in 2022 a week after she was granted a court order to keep him away from her.

Joseph Mario Castorena, 22, was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder after deliberation for killing three of Jessica Serrano’s relatives as well as a man who rented an RV on the family’s property in Aurora on Oct. 30, 2022, prosecutors said. He was also convicted of one count of attempted murder.

Castorena and Serrano, who was not injured, have two children together. Their children were out-of-state with family at the time of the shooting, police have said.

Castorena was arrested over a month after the shooting in Mexico and extradited back to Colorado.

Prosecutors alleged that Castorena broke into the home and waited inside with a gun until family members returned home. When Serrano arrived at about 2 a.m., she noticed Castorena’s keys in her bedroom and called police to report that she thought her ex-boyfriend was in the house and that he was not supposed to be there. Shots were fired as she spoke to dispatchers, prosecutors said.

A week before the shooting, Serrano sought a court protective order, saying that Castorena had held a gun at her and threatened to kill her. She also claimed he held her in his car and would not let her go home.

Castorena faces a mandatory life sentence for each of his four first-degree murder convictions when he is sentenced on Sept. 3.

https://apnews.com/article/girlfriend-family-murder-denver-joseph-castorena-a5a8f1483963ec72a9c5c89f4c419438

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John Thoren III Murders Rachel Holmes

John Thoren III is a killer who was convicted in a Colorado court for the murder of Rachel Holmes

According to court documents John Thoren III is a semi truck driver and was sleeping in the back of his rig when Rachel Holmes started to throw rocks at his truck. Thoren would tell her to stop and showed her his gun. When Rachel Holmes failed to stop throwing rocks she would be fatally shot by Thoren. Why Rachel Holmes was throwing rocks was not made clear.

John Thoren III would call 911 and reported the shooting however he failed to provide any assistance to Rachel Holmes

John Thoren III would be arrested and convicted of murder. He will be sentenced at a later date

John Thoren III Case

Following a 4-day jury trial in Arapahoe County, John David Thoren III, 44, was convicted of second-degree murder on Friday, April 12.

In the overnight hours of October 28, 2022, Thoren was sleeping in his semi-truck at a Boot Barn parking lot on S. Parker Road. Around 2:30 a.m., he said he awoke to an unknown woman throwing rocks at the driver side of his truck

According to Thoren, he told the woman to stop and then showed a gun. He told police that he cracked open the door and stated that if she didn’t stop throwing rocks, she would be shot.

The woman, identified as Rachel Holmes, 46, was shot with a 9mm gun and was pronounced deceased on-scene. Thoren called 9-1-1 to report the shooting, but he did not render aid. When questioned by investigators, he said he was scared for his safety and admitted to shooting the victim. Meanwhile, officers found minimal evidence of damage to the defendant’s semi-truck.

“Instead of driving to a safe location or calling 9-1-1 to report someone throwing rocks at his truck, the defendant decided to take matters into his own hands by confronting the woman with a gun and pulling the trigger,” Senior Deputy DA Michael Mauro said. “Based on the facts of this case, deadly use of force was not justified.”

Thoren was convicted of the following offenses:

Second-Degree Murder (Class 2 Felony)

Violent Crime/Use of a Weapon (Sentence Enhancer)

“While citizens have the right to bear arms and protect themselves from imminent danger, the evidence doesn’t support this defendant’s claims that his life was in danger,” District Attorney John Kellner said. “Jurors recognized this was not a case of self-defense.”

Thoren will be back in court for sentencing on July 22, 2024.

https://coda18.gov/2024/04/jury-convicts-truck-driver-who-shot-and-killed-woman-over-rock-throwing

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