The shooter who murdered 10 people in a Boulder, CO supermarket has been identified as Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21. Fox News has a photo of him.
Both his photo and name suggest Middle East ancestry. His residence is identified as Arvada, a Denver suburb some 20 miles away to the southeast.
No motive has been identified, his background suggests the possibility he could have jihadi motives. Boulder is maybe an hour’s drive from where the father of Salafi-Jihadism - Sayyid Qutb - had his anti-American epiphany in Greeley, CO.
Other possibilities - a robbery gone bad, a busted romance, failure in school? Why it happened where it did is also unclear, there were many markets closer to home.
The assault rifle he used wouldn’t be anyone’s first choice in a robbery, it is too hard to conceal. The weapon suggests a presumption of intended multiple killings. If “suicide by cop” was the intent, it wasn’t successful.
Later ... Red State has some of the suspect’s social media posts which show (a) his anti-Trump bias and (b) his Muslim faith.
Even later ... the shooter was born in Syria.
