Tragedy struck the city of Boulder, Colo., Monday when a gunman killed 10 innocent people , including a ‘heroic’ police officer who arrived first on the …
Tragedy struck the city of Boulder, Colo., Monday when a gunman killed 10 innocent people, including a ‘heroic’ police officer who arrived first on the scene when the shots starting flying at a grocery store. Authorities have identified the suspect as Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, a 21-year-old Arvada. Investigators have not determined a motive for the attack at the King Soopers grocery store. The victims ranged in age from 20 to 65 and included a store manager and former photo director for various magazines. Talley,51, was the first officer to respond to the chaos which would turn out to be a massacre. Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold described the father of seven as a hero. He has been with the department since 2010. Herold said she recently hosted Talley and his family during an award ceremony for Talley’s son for saving his other son’s life after he swallowed a quarter. “Officer Eric Talley is my big brother. He died today in the Boulder shooting,” a woman who identified herself via Twitter as his sister wrote. “My heart is broken. I cannot explain how beautiful he was and what a devastating loss this is to so many. Fly high my sweet brother. You always wanted to be a pilot (damn color blindness). Soar.” Homer Talley told a local news station that his son loved his children more than anything. “He was looking for a job to keep himself off of the front lines and was learning to be a drone operator,” Talley told Denver 7. “He didn’t want to put his family through something like this and he believed in Jesus Christ.” Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty said Talley’s life was one of the most “outstanding officers of the Boulder Police Department, and his life was cut too short.” The 25-year-old was a manager at King Soopers and loved her job by all accounts. She had graduated from Centaurus High School in 2013 and was taking classes at Front Range Community College and was considering a career as a nurse, the Denver Post reported. Olds worked at another King Soopers in Arvada before returning to the Boulder location at Table Mesa Drive. She worked as assistant deli manager before being promoted to manager and then front-end manager, said Kyle Welsh, retail director for the Local 7 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which Olds was a member of until December 2018. In a Facebook post, Olds’ aunt, Lori Olds, mourned her niece. “Why you why not me? You haven’t even lived yet….,” she wrote. Brittany Tubbs, a roommate and former co-worker told the newspaper that Olds gave life to the grocery store chain.
