[Moloko]

Happened at a supermarket. Ten dead (including a police officer). One in custody. No real details yet.

https://news.sky.com/story/police-of...e-say-12254061

A gunman has killed 10 people, including a police officer, following an hours-long stand-off at a grocery market in the US state of Colorado.

The attack in Boulder ended with police detaining an injured suspect at the King Soopers market.

The shooting was live-streamed by witnesses and broadcast on YouTube.

Among the dead was 51-year-old Eric Talley, who was the first police officer to respond to the shooting.

"This is a tragedy and a nightmare for Boulder County," the area's district attorney, Michael Dougherty, said.

"These 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 justice."

No other details have been released about the nine other victims or a motive for the attack.

The grocery store is located in a busy shopping plaza in Boulder, a north-central Colorado city about 30 miles (50km) away from the state capital of Denver.

The supermarket attack comes less than a week after a mass shooting that left eight dead, including six Asian women, at three spas in Atlanta.

The incident began at about 14:30 local time (20:30 GMT) on Monday when the suspect entered the supermarket and began firing.

Shoppers and employees of the store said they had to dive for cover or run to safety as the shooting unfolded.

Some of the stand-off was captured on camera by a passer-by showing victims near the grocery store.

"I don't know what's going on... I heard gunshots, someone's down," the cameraman shouts. "There's an active shooter, get away".

Gunshots can be heard as he runs away from the shop.

The video continues, with police arriving on the scene and surrounding the market.

The Boulder police department later warned people to avoid the area and told them not to "broadcast on social media any tactical information you might see".

"We were at the checkout, and shots just started going off," said Sarah Moonshadow, a customer caught up in the shooting with her son Nicholas.

She told Reuters she had tried to help one of the victims lying on the pavement outside the store, but her son pulled her away saying "we have to go".

"I couldn't help anybody," she said.

Ryan Borowski, who was also inside the store, told CNN he could not believe what had happened in his town: "This feels like the safest spot in America, and I just nearly got killed for getting a soda and a bag of chips."

Aerial footage later showed a shirtless man with an injured leg put onto a stretcher for treatment whilst in handcuffs. Authorities did not say whether it was the suspect or not.

peaking at a press conference, Boulder police chief Maris Herold confirmed that a suspect was in custody and was receiving hospital treatment. "I want to reassure the community that they are safe," she said.

Ms Herold named the officer killed as Eric Talley, who had been with the Boulder police department since 2010.

"The heroic action of this officer when he responded to the scene... phone calls of shots fired in the area and a phone call about a possible person with a patrol rifle," she said.

Ms Herold did not provide further details about the shooting, but said that the investigation was "very complex" and would take "no less that five days to complete".

The names of the other victims will not be released until relatives have been informed.

On Twitter, Colorado Governor Jared Polis said: "My prayers are with our fellow Coloradans in this time of sadness and grief as we learn more about the extent of the tragedy."

President Joe Biden has been briefed about the shooting.

Last month, Mr Biden said he would be recommending tougher legislation to ensure background checks on anyone wishing to purchase a firearm.

The state of Colorado has seen a number of mass shootings over the last few decades, including the 1999 Columbine High School attack that left 12 students and a teacher dead and the 2012 attack at a cinema in Aurora that killed 12 people.

[ferris209]

Too bad the shooter wasn't killed. Dems politicize this to erode our Rights in 3.2.1.....

[lovelyleidy]

Originally Posted by ferris209 ↗

Too bad the shooter wasn't killed. Dems politicize this to erode our Rights in 3.2.1.....

Don’t worry, the mass murder of 1st graders didn’t take your precious guns, I doubt this will.

[ferris209]

Originally Posted by lovelyleidy ↗

Don’t worry, the mass murder of 1st graders didn’t take your precious guns, I doubt this will.

I dunno, the anti-Constitution whack jobs are running pretty rampant right now.

[Dr Thrumpkinz]

Oh fuck! Here we go again.
Let me guess?
-The killer has 3 names, at least two of them are something retarded: Roof, Storm, Hogg, Lazerdicer, etc.
-He wrote a manifesto.
-he is an antivaxxer, makes long gun porn, and plays Q tapes in his walkman.
-he was radicalized online, and as a direct result of Youtube not censoring enough content, fast enough (as detailed in his manifesto)
-The killer looks like this.

[WonderMomma]

Originally Posted by ferris209 ↗

Too bad the shooter wasn't killed. Dems politicize this to erode our Rights in 3.2.1.....

You beat them to the punch with the word “dems”.

[ferris209]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

You beat them to the punch with the word “dems”.

That's true! Lol, but I'm just pointing out the obvious. I won't be out tomorrow advocating that more people buy and learn to shoot weapons, although that is truly how I feel. However, there will certainly be many many folks advocating the opposite with the goal of undermining the Constitution.

[ferris209]

But getting back on topic, I saw someone posted a video on Twitter from someone in the shopping center which included several victims on the ground. Can't find it now, certain that Twitter scrubbed it, but wished I had downloaded it when I saw it to upload here.

[WonderMomma]

Originally Posted by ferris209 ↗

That's true! Lol, but I'm just pointing out the obvious. I won't be out tomorrow advocating that more people buy and learn to shoot weapons, although that is truly how I feel. However, there will certainly be many many folks advocating the opposite with the goal of undermining the Constitution.

Cool. I just thought that was funny.

[ferris209]

Oh, found it!