The Colorado gunman was reportedly heard laughing while shooting at terrified shoppers at a Boulder supermarket.
On March 21, 21-year-old Syrian-American Ahmad Alissa was arrested after shooting and killing ten people at King Soopers in Boulder, Colorado.
Following more than a week after the deadly mass shooting that rocked the nation, witnesses began speaking out and confirmed that the gunman was heard laughing while shooting people.
“We could hear a man chuckling. Gunshots were close. We believe it was him chuckling,” Angelina Romero-Chavez, who was in the store with her partner at the time of the shooting, revealed according to The Denver Post.
As the publication reported, the gunman was also heard laughing by the police who on the radio said: “This guy is laughing at us.”
Recalling the horror moments was also Darcey Lopez, the manager at the cheese counter, who hid in a cabinet when the gunfire broke out.
“I was ready to go,” she admitted. “It was like ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. Ba-ba-ba-ba. It stopped, and we thought he was done. And then he started shooting again.”
Meanwhile, store worker Logan Smith just prepared coffee for his colleague Denny Stong before the gunman opened fire. “He was walking out with it when the first shots were fired,” the 20-year-old recalled the time his friend was shot dead.
After the shooting started, Smith allegedly saw Alissa kill a customer before urging the shoppers to flee the store. He also helped an elderly co-worker by concealing her underneath a Starbucks counter.
“My heart was probably beating 180 beats per minute,” Smith revealed. “Memories of active shooter drills during my education kicked in.”
Since the horrible incident, it has been reported that Alissa, who arrived in the States with his family at the age of three, has been suffering from paranoia and has long been bullied over his heritage.
While the motives for the shooting remain unclear, it has since been confirmed that the young man is facing ten counts of murder on top of other charges.
Our thoughts are with the families of Rikki Olds, Teri Leiker, Denny Stong, Kevin Mahoney, Tralona Bartkowiak, Jody Waters, Lynn Murray, Neven Stanisic, Suzanne Fountain, and Officer Eric Talley.
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