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58 minutes of terror: How the Boulder King Soopers shooting unfolded<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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As shots rang out, employees and shoppers feared the nation\u2019s next mass shooter had come for them<\/h3>\n

By SHELLY BRADBURY, NOELLE PHILLIPS & JON MURRAY
\nReporter Herald<\/p>\n

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Brittany Tubbs, left, and her partner Jeremicah Mills embrace during a candlelight vigil at Fairview High School in Boulder on March 25, 2021. Brittany was best friends with, and roommate of, Rikki Olds, one of the 10 people killed in the mass shooting at the nearby King Soopers in south Boulder.<\/p><\/div>\n

BOULDER \u2014 Logan Smith sat down for a quick lunch with Rikki Olds and another coworker after a slow Monday morning staffing the Starbucks kiosk in\u00a0the south Boulder King Soopers<\/a>. He bit into a frozen egg in his Cobb salad.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey all heard the crunch of the frozen egg and just broke down laughing,\u201d said Smith, 20. \u201cI got a good laugh out of Rikki.\u201d<\/p>\n

The trio left the upstairs employee break room and headed back to work at 2:19 p.m. Smith and Olds walked down the stairs together. See you later, they said, and parted ways.<\/p>\n

Eleven minutes later, Smith had just made a coffee for his friend and coworker Denny Stong.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was walking out with it when the first shots were fired,\u201d Smith said. He would never see his friend again.<\/p>\n

Over the next hour, a gunman\u00a0terrorized the large Boulder grocery store<\/a>, killing 10 people and shattering both a tight-knit workplace and a larger community\u2019s sense of security around an everyday task \u2014 grocery shopping, the most basic of routines. The mass shooting, Colorado\u2019s worst since a gunman killed 12 and injured 70 in an Aurora movie theater in 2012, became the latest in a state that is all too familiar with high-profile, large-scale violence.<\/p>\n

The attack also came within a week of a killing spree in the Atlanta area, where a gunman fatally shot eight people at three spas. The back-to-back incidents ended a year-long stretch during the pandemic when America seemed to have escaped shootings with such high victim counts.<\/p>\n

In the days after the March 22 attack, The Denver Post interviewed two dozen witnesses and survivors. Reporters also pored over police records, radio traffic and video taken at the scene to determine how the shooting unfolded over nearly 58 minutes.<\/p>\n

Together, the accounts and records portray an intense ferocity that played out in the initial minutes, followed by long stretches of eerie quiet \u2014 punctuated by the shooter\u2019s bizarre behavior \u2014 creating awful suspense for employees and shoppers who hid out of sight, as well as uneasiness for police as they prepared to confront the gunman.<\/p>\n

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The first shots were cause for confusion more than anything else.<\/p>\n

Mark Naughton thought the first bang might have been a car crash, except that it repeated again and again in staccato blasts, loud and violent outside his apartment window. He started recording the scene on his camera phone at 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

In the King Soopers parking lot across Table Mesa Drive, a heavyset man in jeans and a green tactical vest had opened fire, killing a person inside a van \u2014 Neven Stanisic, a 23-year-old repairman who\u2019d fixed a coffee machine in the Starbucks kiosk.<\/p>\n

With a high-powered rifle pressed to his shoulder, the gunman moved from the west to the east on the store\u2019s north side. He walked across the parking lot toward the center entrance road and then the grocery store. He moved steadily and did not run. He was firing as he stepped off the sidewalk and into the road, and he shot a man who was running away, pulling the trigger twice.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe shot him from about 12 feet away,\u201d Naughton said. \u201cIt looked like he had a short kind of assault rifle.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the man fell, other witnesses told police, the gunman stood over him and shot him again \u2014 several times.<\/p>\n

Police\u00a0later confirmed that the shooting suspect<\/a>, identified as 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, carried a Ruger AR-556 pistol \u2014 equipped to function similarly to a rifle, with a longer-than-normal barrel \u2014 and a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun. He kept firing the Ruger as he moved toward the store\u2019s eastern entrance. Police later would say they don\u2019t believe Alissa ever fired the 9 mm.<\/p>\n