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

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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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Stephen Paddock Las Vegas Shooting

Stephen Paddock was a spree killer who was responsible for the Las Vegas shooting in 2017 that would take the lives of sixty people and injured hundreds more. The Las Vegas shooting is the worst mass shooting event in United States history

According to police reports Stephen Paddock would barricade himself in Room 32‑135, at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino. Somehow Paddock was able to bring in a large arsenal of weapons without being noticed by hotel staff

On October 1 2017 a large concert was taking place outside of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino with an estimated 20,000 people attending. At a little after ten o’clock pm Stephen Paddock would being to fire and would continue for the next ten minutes leading to sixty people dying from their injuries and over four hundred others suffering from gunshot wounds and additional four hundred people suffering from injuries when people were rushing to safety

Before police could go into the room Stephen Paddock would take his own life

The reasons behind the mass shooting is still not known some six years later with a ton of speculation and conspiracy theories afloat

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The gunman who killed 58 people in Las Vegas in 2017 was not fueled by any “single or clear motivating factor,” the FBI said, mirroring the conclusions of local police who said they could not determine what motivated the massacre.

The FBI findings made public Tuesday come more than a year after the Oct. 1, 2017, massacre at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. According to police, gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire from a 32nd-floor suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, killing dozens and injuring hundreds more before shooting himself in the head.

After the massacre — the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history — investigators delved into Paddock’s life before the gunfire. They pored over his finances, spoke to people who knew him and studied his movements. In the end, the Las Vegas police said in a report last summer, these investigators said they could not answer why he carried out the attack.

The question of motive often lingers after mass shootings, as some of the people victimized by the attacks describe a desperate search for answers.

The FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit brought together a panel of experts to examine the attacker and try to look at his possible motivations, the bureau said. The FBI released a three-page summary of the panel’s findings Tuesday, but much as local police came away without clarity, the federal investigators’ conclusions were no different.

“Throughout his life, Paddock went to great lengths to keep his thoughts private, and that extended to his final thinking about this mass murder,” the FBI said in its summary of the findings. Noting that most shooters “rarely have a singular motive or reason for engaging in a mass homicide” and instead have a tangled knot of problems that merge together, the panel “assesses that in this regard, Paddock was no different.”

The FBI panel also echoed other findings investigators have previously announced. They found that Paddock “conspired with no one; he acted alone” and was not seeking any political, religious or social outcome through his attack. No “ideologically-motivated persons or groups” directed or inspired him, the FBI said, another rebuke to the Islamic State’s attempts to link itself to the attack.

The federal panel also echoed the determination that Paddock left behind no explanatory note or other communication explaining either the attack or his motivation. They found no specific grievance against a Las Vegas casino or any of his victims that may have prompted the attack.

The Las Vegas attack was horrifying in its scale. Police said 869 people were injured, nearly half of them by gunfire or shrapnel, along with countless others in the crowd of 22,000 who carry psychological scars.

But the FBI group did determine that Paddock’s desire to kill himself was a key part of what happened, which the panel concluded was linked to his declining health as he got older. The panel found that “Paddock concluded that he would seek to control the ending of his life via a suicidal act,” a desire that was furthered by his hope to achieve some infamy through the attack. This facet echoes that seen by some other mass attackers, who similarly seek fame, but the Las Vegas panel linked this to Paddock’s father, a bank robber who was on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.

The FBI panel found that Paddock was similar to many other mass attackers, who have frequently concerned the people around them before the attacks. The panel also found that Paddock could be cruel to other people in his life, which it said included manipulating others. Authorities have previously said he spent considerable time preparing for the attack while seeking to thwart their investigation. In its conclusions, the FBI panel said that this probably gave Paddock “a sense of direction and control despite his mental and physical decline.”

Police have previously said an FBI analysis found that Stephen Paddock’s bank accounts were also declining before the shooting. The Las Vegas sheriff called him “an unremarkable man” and “a narcissist [who] only cared about himself,” a conclusion the FBI panel appeared to endorse.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/30/las-vegas-shooter-was-not-driven-by-any-single-or-clear-motivating-factor-fbi-says/

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James Holmes Murders 12 In Colorado

James Holmes is a spree killer from Colorado who would murder twelve people inside of a movie theater

According to court documents James Holmes would enter the Theater 9 at the Century 16 multiplex which was playing the movie The Dark Knight Rises at a special midnight showing. Twenty minutes into the film Holmes would leave the theater through a emergency exit and go to his vehicle where he would heavily arm himself

James Holmes would return to the theater and soon after the chaos would begin. Holmes would throw a series of pipe bombs before opening fire with a number of weapons. Twelve people would die from their injuries and seventy others would be hurt

James Holmes would be arrested shortly afterwards and would later be convicted and sentenced to twelve life sentences plus 3,318 years. Holmes was initially incarcerated in Colorado but after being attacked he was transferred to the Federal prison system

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A man serving more than 3,000 years in jail for the murders of 12 people in a cinema warned prison authorities he could kill again, according to newly released footage.

James Holmes walked into a showing of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, a suburb of Denver, Colorado, and opened fire in July 2012. The attack, which he carried out while listening to loud techno to drown out his victims’ screams, also left 70 people injured.

The jury at his subsequent trial dismissed his defence of mental illness, and he escaped the death penalty but was sentenced to 12 life sentences plus 3,318 years in jail.

US prosecutors have now released hours of video showing him talking about the massacre to William Reid, a court-appointed specialist who evaluated his sanity.

When asked if he was to pose a danger to anybody, he told the psychiatrist: “Well, if I killed somebody then there’s a likelihood that I would kill again.”

Mr Reid was also heard asking Holmes whether the prison authorities “should be worried about you”. He replied: “I’d say so, yeah.”

Holmes also revealed he did not have a plan for the aftermath of the murders.

He said he did not “whether to die or not or drive away or where I would go – I kind of left that all up to the spur of the moment.”

Holmes also said he felt uncomfortable being handcuffed when found by police officers, but otherwise had no feelings about his arrest.

“I didn’t have any feelings about it,” he said. “I just kinda felt it was something that was going be done … I didn’t have any feelings.”

Most of the 2014 videos were shown to the jury at Holmes’ trial.

Prosecutors’ spokeswoman Vikki Migoya said people who want to see the videos can contact Colorado’s 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office for access to a website where they are posted.

The videos were released at the request of attorney Steven Zansberg, who said he was representing a documentary producer whom he declined to identify.

Jeff Roberts, president of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition, praised the decision to release the videos. “I think it goes to the public being able to understand what happened,” he told The Aurora Sentinel.

“There’s a lot we have learned about the Aurora theatre shooter, but there are still unanswered questions and when something like that happens there is absolutely a public interest in knowing as much as possible. Getting access to these reports is part of filling in those missing puzzle pieces.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/aurora-cinema-shooting-james-holmes-denver-colorado-video-psychiatrist-interview-a8744081.html

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James Wilson Murders 2 In South Carolina

James Wilson was sentenced to death by the State of South Carolina for a school shooting

According to court documents James Wilson would go to Oakland Elementary School where he would kill Shequila Bradley and Tequila Thomas, both children were eight years old. Wilson would also injure seven other students and two teachers

James Wilson would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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On the morning of September 26, 1988, Jamie Wilson drove to his maternal grandmother’s house and stole her .22 caliber, nine-shot revolver. Wilson then drove to an Abbeville discount store and purchased some .22 hollow-point long rifle ammunition. Wilson discarded the bullets already loaded in the gun, and reloaded the weapon with the more destructive hollow-point bullets. Wilson next proceeded to the Oakland Elementary School in Greenwood, where he parked his 1974 Maverick. He entered the school, finding his way to the cafeteria, where he stood quietly for a moment. It was right at lunch time for many of the children. Next, Wilson pulled out the pistol and began shooting, picking his victims, both children and adults, at random. Witnesses observed a look of hatred and rage masking Wilson’s face.

James Wilson fired until his gun was empty. He then went into a restroom and reloaded the weapon, after which he entered a classroom and opened fire again. After emptying his gun a second time, Wilson threw the gun down and stepped outside through a window. A teacher spotted him and told him to remain still with his hands up, which Wilson did. The police then arrived and took Wilson into custody.

The terror created and damage inflicted by Wilson on September 26 was considerable, and an entire nation was shocked, as the unthinkable had occurred. One female first *501 grade teacher was shot once in the shoulder and once in the left hand, with the bullet traveling through her hand and into her throat. A young boy slumped forward onto a cafeteria table after Wilson aimed his pistol at the boy’s temple and fired, hitting the boy in the head. Two little girls, both age eight, were shot dead. Children screamed; children fled; children hid under their desks; other children were shot.

Altogether, Wilson was indicted for two counts of murder, nine counts of assault and battery with intent to kill, and one count of illegally carrying a firearm. Wilson pled “guilty but mental ill” (GBMI) to substantially all of the charges, and his plea was accepted. He was sentenced to twenty years, each sentence to be served consecutively, for each of eight counts of assault and battery with intent to kill; ten years, consecutive, for assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature; and five years, consecutive, for illegally carrying a firearm. Wilson elected to have the penalty phase of his capital murder charges tried by the trial judge without a jury. The trial judge affirmatively found the existence of two statutory aggravating circumstances: (1) murder wherein two or more persons are murdered pursuant to one act or scheme; and (2) murder of a child eleven years of age or under. The trial judge also found the existence of four statutory mitigating circumstances: (1) defendant has no significant history of prior violent crime conviction; (2) the murder was committed under the influence of mental or emotional disturbance; (3) capacity of the defendant to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law was substantially impaired; and (4) the age or mentality of the defendant at the time of the crime. Wilson was then sentenced to death for each of the two murders. Wilson now appeals his death sentence.

https://law.justia.com/cases/south-carolina/supreme-court/1992/23545-2.html

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Robert Bowers Murders 11 In Pennsylvania

Robert Bowers was sentenced to death by the Federal Government for eleven murders during the Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting

According to court documents Robert Bowers would enter the Tree Of Life synagogue is Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and opened fire killing eleven people. Two others were wounded inside of the building and four police officers were injured when they arrived at the scene

Robert Bowers would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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Robert Bowers was just sentenced to death, August 2 2023

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he gunman who stormed a synagogue in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community and killed 11 worshippers will be sentenced to death for perpetrating the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history.

Robert Bowers spewed hatred of Jews and espoused white supremacist beliefs online before methodically planning and carrying out the 2018 massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue, where members of three congregations had gathered for Sabbath worship and study. Bowers, a truck driver from suburban Baldwin, also wounded two worshippers and five responding police officers.

The same federal jury that convicted the 50-year-old Robert Bowers on 63 criminal counts recommended Wednesday that he be put to death for an attack whose impacts continue to reverberate nearly five years later. He showed little reaction as the sentence was announced, briefly acknowledging his legal team and family as he was led from the courtroom. A judge will formally impose the sentence later.

Jurors were unanimous in finding that Bowers’ attack was motivated by his hatred of Jews, and that he chose Tree of Life for its location in one the largest and most historic Jewish communities in the U.S. so that he could “maximize the devastation, amplify the harm of his crimes, and instill fear within the local, national, and international Jewish communities.” They also found that Bowers lacked remorse.

The family of 97-year-old Rose Mallinger, who was killed in the attack, and her daughter, Andrea Wedner, who was shot and wounded, thanked the jurors and said “a measure of justice has been served.”

“Returning a sentence of death is not a decision that comes easy, but we must hold accountable those who wish to commit such terrible acts of antisemitism, hate, and violence,” the family said in a written statement.

The verdict came after a lengthy trial in which jurors heard in chilling detail how Bowers reloaded at least twice, stepped over the bloodied bodies of his victims to look for more people to shoot, and surrendered only when he ran out of ammunition. In the sentencing phase, grieving family members told the jury about the lives that Bowers took — a 97-year-old woman and intellectually disabled brothers among them — and the unrelenting pain of their loss. Survivors testified about their own lasting pain, both physical and emotional.

Through it all, Bowers showed little reaction to the proceeding that would decide his fate — typically looking down at papers or screens at the defense table — though he could be seen conversing at length with his legal team during breaks. He even told a psychiatrist that he thought the trial was helping to spread his antisemitic message.

It was the first federal death sentence imposed during the presidency of Joe Biden, whose 2020 campaign included a pledge to end capital punishment. Biden’s Justice Department has placed a moratorium on federal executions and has declined to authorize the death penalty in hundreds of new cases where it could apply. But federal prosecutors said death was the appropriate punishment for Bowers, citing the vulnerability of his mainly elderly victims and his hate-based targeting of a religious community. Most victims’ families said Bowers should die for his crimes.

Bowers’ lawyers never contested his guilt, focusing their efforts on trying to save his life. They presented evidence of a horrific childhood marked by trauma and neglect. They also claimed Bowers had severe, untreated mental illness, saying he killed out of a delusional belief that Jews were helping to cause a genocide of white people. The defense argued that schizophrenia and brain abnormalities made Bowers more susceptible to being influenced by the extremist content he found online.

The prosecution denied mental illness had anything to do with it, saying Bowers knew exactly what he was doing when he violated the sanctity of a house of worship by opening fire on terrified congregants with an AR-15 rifle and other weapons, shooting everyone he could find.

The jury sided with prosecutors, specifically rejecting most of the primary defense arguments for a life sentence, including that he has schizophrenia and that his delusions about Jewish people spurred the attack. Jurors did find that his difficult childhood merited consideration, but gave more weight to the severity of the crimes.

Bowers blasted his way into Tree of Life on Oct. 27, 2018, and killed members of the Dor Hadash, New Light and Tree of Life congregations, which shared the synagogue building.

The victims were Joyce Fienberg, 75; Richard Gottfried, 65; Rose Mallinger, 97; Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz, 66; brothers David Rosenthal, 54, and Cecil Rosenthal, 59; Bernice Simon, 84, and her husband, Sylvan Simon, 86; Dan Stein, 71; Melvin Wax, 87; and Irving Younger, 69.

Bowers, who traded gunfire with responding officers and was shot three times, told police at the scene that “all these Jews need to die,” according to testimony. Ahead of the attack, he posted, liked or shared a stream of virulently antisemitic content on Gab, a social media platform popular with the far right. He has expressed no remorse for the killings, telling mental health experts he saw himself as a soldier in a race war, took pride in the attack and wished he had shot more people.

In emotional testimony, the victims’ family members described what Bowers took from them. “My world has fallen apart,” Sharyn Stein, Dan Stein’s widow, told the jury.

Survivors and other affected by the attack will have another opportunity to address the court — and Bowers — when he is formally sentenced by the judge.

The synagogue has been closed since the shootings. The Tree of Life congregation is working on an overhauled synagogue complex that would house a sanctuary, museum, memorial and center for fighting antisemitism.

https://news.yahoo.com/jury-resumes-deliberations-over-death-131602865.html

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