Three were gunned down while putting in a day’s work at a Colorado supermarket. Another was a police officer who raced in to try to rescue them and others from the attack that left 10 dead.
Three were gunned down while putting in a day’s work at a Colorado supermarket. Another was a police officer who raced in to try to rescue them and others from the attack that left 10 dead. A picture of Monday’s shooting victims has begun to emerge as the suspect in the killings waits behind bars for his first court appearance, set for Monday. Those who lost their lives at the King Soopers store in Boulder ranged from 20 years old to 65. They included a magazine photographer, a Medicare agent with a passion for theater and others going about their days at a busy shopping plaza. They were identified as Denny Stong,20; Neven Stanisic,23; Rikki Olds,25; Tralona Bartkowiak,49; police Officer Eric Talley,51; Suzanne Fountain,59; Teri Leiker,51; Kevin Mahoney,61; Lynn Murray,62; and Jodi Waters,65. Leiker, Olds and Stong worked at the supermarket, said former co-worker Jordan Sailas, who never got the chance to bring his baby son into the store to meet them. RIKKI OLDS A front-end manager at King Soopers, Olds aspired to work her way up the ranks at the store, her family said. “She was 25 years old, just kind of starting life, bubbly and energetic and charismatic,” her uncle Robert Olds said. He said he still remembers the preschool-age niece who would tag along with him and his sons to baseball tournaments and ask to go to McDonald’s afterward. “We are devastated,” Robert Olds said. He added that the family had heard from one of her friends that she had been trying to lock the store doors after the shooting began in the parking lot. Her grandmother choked up on the phone as she described the young woman she played a large role in raising. “She was just a very kind and loving, bubbly person who lit up the room when she walked in,” said Jeanette Olds,71, of Lafayette, Colorado. KEVIN MAHONEY He “represents all things Love,” his daughter Erika Mahoney said in a poignant tweet that featured a wedding photo and drew wide attention on social media. “I’m so thankful he could walk me down the aisle last summer,” added Mahoney, who is the news director at a California public radio station.
