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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Colorado shooting suspect incompetent to stand trial, judge says

2022-04-16

[FoxNews] A judge ruled Friday that a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket last year is still mentally incompetent to stand trial, further delaying court proceedings in the case.

The prosecution of Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa,

...also in our archives as Ahmad Alissa, the ISIS-curious, Trump-hating, untreated paranoid schizophrenic known wolf whose aggressive, infidel-hating Syrian refugee family did not bother to stop him from getting guns and running amok in a Jewish grocery store just before Passover. Mr. Al Issa would have preferred to shoot up a Trump rally the previous year, but the Covid shutdown meant the scheduled rallies were cancelled...

22, has been on hold since December, when Judge Ingrid Bakke ruled that he was mentally incompetent — unable to understand legal proceedings and work with his lawyers to defend himself.

The ruling came nearly a month after Boulder, the home of the University of Colorado, marked the first anniversary of the attack that killed workers, customers and a police officer who rushed inside the store. Alissa was not in court for Friday’s hearing.

Few details have been released about Alissa’s condition. Reports on his evaluations are not available to the public, but a court filing discussing one of the evaluations last year said he had been provisionally diagnosed with an unspecified mental health condition that limits his ability to "meaningfully converse with others."

In December, one of Alissa’s attorneys, Kathryn Herold, said her client has a "serious" mental illness but did not elaborate. At the time, District Attorney Michael Dougherty said Alissa had "deteriorated" over the previous months while being held in jail.

Investigators have not released any information about why they believe Alissa launched the attack or why he may have targeted the supermarket. He lived in the neighboring suburb of Arvada, where authorities say he passed a background check to legally buy the Ruger AR-556 pistol he allegedly used six days before the shooting.

Competency is a different legal issue than a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, which involves whether someone’s mental health prevented them from understanding right from wrong at the time a crime was committed.

The judge set a July 21 hearing to again evaluate Alissa’s competency to stand trial.

The March 22, 2021, attack at a King Soopers grocery shocked a state that has seen its share of mass shootings, including the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and the 2012 Aurora movie theater shooting.

Boulder police Officer Eric Talley, a 51-year-old father of seven, was shot and killed while rushing into the store with an initial team of police officers. The nine others killed inside and outside the supermarket were Denny Stong, Neven Stanisic, Rikki Olds, Tralona Bartkowiak, Teri Leiker, Suzanne Fountain, Kevin Mahoney, Lynn Murray and Jody Waters.

Stong, Olds and Leiker worked at the supermarket.

Posted by:Skidmark

#7
Can't have the real trial until after the Mid-term Elections, allowing the LSD's to use it as a new Gun Control Poster.

A Simple Question.
IF Gun Control Laws worked, how did he get a firearm being a mentally unstable person, and why were HONEST / INNOCENT Citizens unable to defend themselves because they were disarmed?

Posted by: NN2N1 2022-04-16 18:11

#6 Reminds me of an op piece proposing the insane and emotionally unstable are a bigger threat than those who plan crimes. The short, say what you want about 1st degree murderers, they are at least in control of their faculties.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-04-16 13:36

#5 I have never understood why the insane can't be put down when they have done some heinous crime. Wtf makes them any more special than you and I?

Posted by: Chris 2022-04-16 12:59

#4 Ahmad Alissa was laughing as he executed innocent people.

Posted by: Dron66046 2022-04-16 12:48

#3 The judge needs to invite Mr. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa over to meet his family after he's released. I bet they'd hit it off pretty well together.

Posted by: jpal 2022-04-16 12:43

#2 Ignorance of the law is no excuse so neither is being crazy.

Posted by: Silentbrick 2022-04-16 11:56

#1 Competent enough to be put in front of a firing squad though.

Posted by: DarthVader 2022-04-16 10:54

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